Denoised and texture enhanced MVCT to improve soft tissue conspicuity

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Sheng, Ke ^a   Gou, Shuiping ^b   Wu, Jiaolong ^b   Qi, Sharon X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

denoising; MVCT; texture preserving; tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION COMPENSATION; TISSUE; UROLOGY; X RAY DETECTORS;

BLOCK MATCHING; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; DE-NOISING; HEAD AND NECK; LOCAL DENOISING METHOD; MVCT; SALIENCY MAP; SOFT TISSUE; TEXTURE PRESERVING; TOMOTHERAPY;

PHANTOMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LYMPH NODE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; NECK; PHANTOM; PROSTATE; SOFT TISSUE; TOMOTHERAPY; VEIN; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVICES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84907805349     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4894714     Document Type: Article

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