Sparse-view x-ray CT reconstruction via total generalized variation regularization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2997-3017

  Niu, Shanzhou ^a   Gao, Yang ^a   Bian, Zhaoying ^a   Huang, Jing ^a   Chen, Wufan ^a   Yu, Gaohang ^b   Liang, Zhengrong ^c   Ma, Jianhua ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GANNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

regularization; sparse view; total generalized variation; total variation; x ray

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; X RAYS;

ALTERNATING OPTIMIZATIONS; GENERALIZED VARIATION; HIGHER ORDER DERIVATIVES; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; REGULARIZATION; SPARSE-VIEW; TOTAL VARIATION; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; TRUNK;

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

EID: 84902504450     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/12/2997     Document Type: Article

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