Three-dimensional anisotropic adaptive filtering of projection data for noise reduction in cone beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5896-5909

  Maier, Andreas ^a   Wigstrm, Lars ^a,b   Hofmann, Hannes G ^c   Hornegger, Joachim ^c   Zhu, Lei ^d   Strobel, Norbert ^e   Fahrig, Rebecca ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

artifacts; C arm computed tomography (CT); GPU; hardware acceleration; image enhancement; low dose; noise

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LOW PASS FILTERS; NOISE ABATEMENT; ROBOTIC ARMS;

ANISOTROPIC FILTERING; ARTIFACTS; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; LOW DOSE; NOISE; TENSOR REPRESENTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80855134338     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633901     Document Type: Article

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