Spectral response compensation for photon-counting clinical x-ray CT using sinogram restoration

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Srivastava, Somesh ^a   Cammin, Jochen ^a   Fung, George S K ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a   Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical x ray CT; conjugate gradient; convergent algorithms; image reconstruction; maximum likelihood estimation; optimization methods; Photon counting detectors; sinogram restoration

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATE GRADIENT; CONVERGENT ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PHOTON COUNTING; SINOGRAMS; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; RESTORATION; SITE SELECTION; X RAYS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860356080     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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