Experimental implementation of a polyenergetic statistical reconstruction algorithm for a commercial fan-beam CT scanner

Physica Medica

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 500-512

  Evans, Joshua D ^a   Whiting, Bruce R ^b   Politte, David G ^c   O'Sullivan, Joseph A ^d   Klahr, Paul F ^e   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^e PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating Minimization; Model based statistical iterative reconstruction; Polyenergetic statistical reconstruction; Quantitative computed tomography

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); WATER;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACK PROPAGATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION; MODEL-BASED STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; POLYENERGETIC STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84881665838     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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