Experimental studies on few-view reconstruction for high-resolution micro-CT

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-42

  Sen Sharma, Kriti ^a   Jin, Xin ^b   Holzner, Christian ^c   Narayanan, Shree ^a   Liu, Baodong ^d   Wang, Dong ^a   Agah, Masoud ^a   Wang, Linbing ^a   Yu, Hengyong ^d   Wang, Ge ^e  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XRADIA INC   (United States)

^d Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

^e RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

compressed sensing; Few view reconstruction; micro CT; SART TV; TV minimization

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE; MICRO CT; NON-DESTRUCTIVE IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; SART-TV;

COMPRESSED SENSING; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84878877261     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/XST-130364     Document Type: Article

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