Image reconstruction in phase-contrast tomography exploiting the second-order statistical properties of the projection data

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24396-24410

  Chou, Cheng Ying ^a   Huang, Pin Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOCOVARIANCE FUNCTIONS; CONVENTIONAL ALGORITHMS; DETECTABILITY; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE AMPLIFICATION; NOISE CORRELATION; NOISE MODELS; PENALIZED LEAST-SQUARES; PHASE CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE PROPERTIES; PHASE-RETRIEVAL FORMULA; PRIORI INFORMATION; PROJECTION DATA; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REFRACTIVE CONTRAST; SECOND ORDERS; STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY; ZERO FREQUENCY;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82055170376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024396     Document Type: Article

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