Low-dose computed tomography image restoration using previous normal-dose scan

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5713-5731

  Ma, Jianhua ^a,b   Huang, Jing ^a   Feng, Qianjin ^a   Zhang, Hua ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^c   Liang, Zhengrong ^b   Chen, Wufan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

computed tomography; image restoration; low dose; nonlocal means; normal dose; previous scan

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REDUNDANCY; RESTORATION; X RAYS;

AS LOW AS REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE; CLINICAL APPLICATION; LOW DOSE; NON LOCAL MEANS (NLM); NON-LOCAL MEANS; NORMAL-DOSE; PREVIOUS SCAN; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80053609557     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3638125     Document Type: Article

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