Quantitative evaluation of ASiR image quality: An adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction technique

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Van De Casteele, Elke ^a   Parizel, Paul ^b   Sijbers, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ASIR; Catphan phantom; dose reduction; Iterative reconstruction; noise model; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

ASIR; CATPHAN PHANTOM; DOSE REDUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE MODELS; XRAY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE DENOISING;

EID: 84860365172     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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