The dependence of image quality on the number of high and low kVp projections in dual energy CT using the prior image constrained compressed sensing (PICCS) algorithm

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Szczykutowicz, Timothy P ^a   Hsieh, Jiang ^b   Chen, Guang Hong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed sensing; CT; Dual energy; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CT; DUAL ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY CT; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; ENERGY SEPARATIONS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HIGH IMAGE QUALITY; HIGH SLEW RATES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; SLEW RATE; SWITCHING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSED SENSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84873932659     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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