Total variation-stokes strategy for sparse-view x-ray ct image reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 749-763

  Liu, Yan ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a   Ma, Jianhua ^b   Lu, Hongbing ^c   Wang, Ke ^d   Zhang, Hao ^a   Moore, William ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Low dose computed tomography; Sparse view; Total variation stokes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; LOW DOSE; PIECE-WISE CONSTANTS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SPARSE-VIEW; TOTAL VARIATION-STOKES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMAGING PHANTOM; LINEAR SYSTEM; LUMINANCE; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOTAL VARIATION STOKE PROJECTION ONTO CONVEX SET;

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

EID: 84896289215     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2295738     Document Type: Article

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