Investigation of statistical iterative reconstruction for dedicated breast CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Makeev, Andrey ^a   Das, Mini ^b   Glick, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

breast CT; Huber potential function; penalized maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CT; DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FREE PARAMETERS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PENALTY WEIGHTS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860369528     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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