Iterative total-variation reconstruction versus weighted filtered-backprojection reconstruction with edge-preserving filtering

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3413-3431

  Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a   Li, Ya ^b   Zamyatin, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE-PRESERVING FILTERING; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FILTERED-BACKPROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NON-ITERATIVE METHOD; POST-FILTERING ALGORITHM; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY;

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

EID: 84877359798     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/10/3413     Document Type: Article

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