Adaptive-weighted total variation minimization for sparse data toward low-dose x-ray computed tomography image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 7923-7956

  Liu, Yan ^a,b   Ma, Jianhua ^a,c   Fan, Yi ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE PROPERTIES; IMAGE VOXELS; LOW DOSE; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PIECEWISE CONSTANT; PROJECTION DATA; PROJECTION ONTO CONVEX SETS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPARSE DATA; TOTAL VARIATION; TOTAL VARIATION MINIMIZATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING;

EDGE DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870337138     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/23/7923     Document Type: Article

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