Iterative reconstruction for X-ray computed tomography using prior-image induced nonlocal regularization

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2367-2378

  Zhang, Hua ^a   Huang, Jing ^a   Ma, Jianhua ^a,b   Bian, Zhaoying ^a   Feng, Qianjin ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^c   Liang, Zhengrong ^b   Chen, Wufan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

penalized weighted least squares; prior image; regularization; statistical iterative reconstruction; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT;

PRIOR IMAGE; REGULARIZATION; STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; NOISE; PRIOR IMAGE INDUCED NONLOCAL REGULARIZATION; TRUNK; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORSO;

EID: 84906060463     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2287244     Document Type: Article

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