Iterative image reconstruction for cerebral perfusion CT using a pre-contrast scan induced edge-preserving prior

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7519-7542

  Ma, Jianhua ^a,b   Zhang, Hua ^a   Gao, Yang ^a   Huang, Jing ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^b   Feng, Qianjing ^a   Chen, Wufan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STROKE; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBRAL PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DATA SETS; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; EDGE PRESERVING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION; ISCHEMIC PENUMBRA; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; LOW DOSE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORS; OBJECT DETECTION; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE ABATEMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84869048874     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/22/7519     Document Type: Article

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