Noise reduction in low-dose cone beam CT by incorporating prior volumetric image information

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2569-2577

  Ouyang, Luo ^a   Solberg, Timothy ^a   Wang, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

KL transform; low dose cone beam CT; principal component analysis; prior information; PWLS

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE DENOISING; NOISE ABATEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CONE-BEAM CT; K L TRANSFORM; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; PENALTY PARAMETERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PRIOR INFORMATION; PROJECTION DOMAIN; PWLS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861609148     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3702592     Document Type: Article

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