Megavoltage CT imaging quality improvement on TomoTherapy via tensor framelet

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Gao, Hao ^a,b   Qi, X Sharon ^c   Gao, Yu ^a   Low, Daniel A ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; GPU; low dose; reconstruction; tensor framelet; TomoTherapy

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TENSORS;

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FRAMELET; HIGH ORDER DERIVATIVES; LOW DOSE; MEGAVOLTAGE CT IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; TOMOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881647982     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4816303     Document Type: Article

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