Investigation of iterative image reconstruction in low-dose breast CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2659-2685

  Bian, Junguo ^a   Yang, Kai ^b   Boone, John M ^b   Han, Xiao ^c   Sidky, Emil Y ^c   Pan, Xiaochuan ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; image quality assessment; optimization based reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SET THEORY;

FDK RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL SOLVERS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84900506152     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/11/2659     Document Type: Article

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