Image reconstruction for hybrid true-color micro-CT

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1711-1719

  Xu, Qiong ^a,b   Yu, Hengyong ^c   Bennett, James ^c,d   He, Peng ^d   Zainon, Rafidah ^e   Doesburg, Robert ^e   Opie, Alex ^e   Walsh, Mike ^e   Shen, Haiou ^d,e   Butler, Anthony ^e   Butler, Phillip ^f   Mou, Xuanqin ^a   Wang, Ge ^d  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Medical Center Boulevard   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Color spectral CT; Micro CT; Photon counting; Statistical interior tomography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STUDIES; COLOR DIFFUSION; COLOR SPACE; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; DETECTOR SIZE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGING TOOLS; INITIAL GUESS; INTERIOR TOMOGRAPHY; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; MICRO CT; MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PHOTON COUNTING; REDUCING SYSTEMS; REGION OF INTEREST; SPECTRAL IMAGING; SPECTRAL RECONSTRUCTION; SYSTEM COSTS; TRUE COLORS; X-RAY MICRO-CT;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; MICE; MINIATURIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861385640     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2192119     Document Type: Article

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