A preliminary investigation of reduced-view image reconstruction from low dose breast CT data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bian, Junguo ^a   Han, Xiao ^a   Yang, Kai ^b   Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Boone, John M ^b   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CT; CT DATA; FDK ALGORITHM; IMAGING DOSE; LOW DOSE; OPTIMIZATION-BASED ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860381247     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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