Statistical image reconstruction from limited projection data with intensity priors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2039-2061

  Rashed, Essam A ^a,b   Kudo, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAYS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858775372     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/7/2039     Document Type: Article

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