Evaluation of robustness of maximum likelihood cone-beam CT reconstruction with total variation regularization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 5955-5970

  Stsepankou, D ^a   Arns, A ^a   Ng, S K ^b   Zygmanski, P ^b   Hesser, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONEBEAM CT RECONSTRUCTION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DATA INCONSISTENCIES; DEFECT DETECTORS; ERROR MEASURES; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR SIGNALS; LOW DOSE; PATIENT LOCALIZATION; POSITION CORRECTION; PROJECTION ANGLES; PROJECTION DATA; PROJECTION MATRIX; QUALITY CHECKS; SIMULATED PHANTOM; SINGLE DEFECT; TOLERANCE LEVELS; TOTAL VARIATION REGULARIZATION; UNDER-SAMPLING;

ALGORITHMS; DEFECTS; ERRORS; IMAGE DENOISING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PIXELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL THEORY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84866334876     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/19/5955     Document Type: Article

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