Alpha image reconstruction (AIR): A new iterative CT image reconstruction approach using voxel-wise alpha blending

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Hofmann, Christian ^a   Sawall, Stefan ^b   Knaup, Michael ^b   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

clinical CT; iterative reconstruction; regularization

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SCANNING;

CLINICAL CT; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; PENALIZED WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REGULARIZATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DEVIATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ALPHA IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; SIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

WATER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 84901628826     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4875975     Document Type: Article

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