Nonlinear sinogram smoothing for low-dose X-ray CT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 II, 2004, Pages 2505-2513

  Li, Tianfang ^a   Li, Xiang ^b   Wang, Jing ^a   Wen, Junhai ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^c   Hsieh, Jiang ^d   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterated conditional mode; Low dose; Penalized weighted least square; Sinogram smoothing; X ray computed tomography (CT)

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOW PASS FILTERS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ITERATED CONDITIONAL MODES (ICM); PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; SINOGRAM SMOOTHING; SINOGRAMS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 8344272167     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.834824     Document Type: Article

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