Accelerated barrier optimization compressed sensing (ABOCS) reconstruction for cone-beam CT: Phantom studies

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4588-4598

  Niu, Tianye ^a   Zhu, Lei ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

compressed sensing; cone beam CT; iterative reconstruction; logarithmic barrier; total variation

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED SENSING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; ERRORS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ION BEAMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHANTOMS; SET THEORY;

CONE-BEAM CT; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LOGARITHMIC BARRIERS; PROJECTION ONTO CONVEX SETS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; TOTAL VARIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864198269     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4729837     Document Type: Article

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