Sinogram restoration for low-dosed X-ray computed tomography using fractional-order perona-malik diffusion

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hu, Shaoxiang ^a   Liao, Zhiwu ^b   Chen, Wufan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURTH ORDER PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; FRACTIONAL-ORDER DERIVATIVES; NOISE REDUCING; NOISE SUPPRESSING; NON-LINEAR ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SINOGRAMS; SPECKLE EFFECTS; STAIRCASE EFFECT; VISUAL QUALITIES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPECKLE; STAIRS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84867946983     PISSN: 1024123X     EISSN: 15635147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/391050     Document Type: Article

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