Iterative image-domain decomposition for dual-energy CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Niu, Tianye ^a   Dong, Xue ^a   Petrongolo, Michael ^a   Zhu, Lei ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best linear unbiased estimation; Dual energy CT; Edge predetection; Image domain decomposition; Noise suppression

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BEST LINEAR UNBIASED ESTIMATION; DUAL-ENERGY CT; EDGE PREDETECTION; IMAGE DOMAIN; NOISE SUPPRESSION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPOSITION; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE STANDARD; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84908157148     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4866386     Document Type: Article

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