Statistical reconstruction of material decomposed data in spectral CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1249-1257

  Schirra, Carsten O ^a   Roessl, Ewald ^b   Koehler, Thomas ^b   Brendel, Bernhard ^b   Thran, Axel ^b   Pan, Dipanjan ^c   Anastasio, Mark A ^d   Proksa, Roland ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy resolved computerized tomography (CT); K edge imaging; material decomposition; statistical image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ENERGY-RESOLVED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; ENERGY-RESOLVED COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; K-EDGE IMAGING; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; RADIATION ENERGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880195263     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2250991     Document Type: Article

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