Spectral diffusion: An algorithm for robust material decomposition of spectral CT data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 6445-6466

  Clark, Darin P ^a   Badea, Cristian T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bilateral filtration; kernel regression; material decomposition; sparsity; spectral CT; split Bregman method

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL FILTRATIONS; KERNEL REGRESSION; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; SPARSITY; SPLIT BREGMAN METHODS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; GOLD; IODINE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; KIDNEY; LIVER; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SPLEEN; X RAY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION; GADOLINIUM; GOLD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 84908192310     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/21/6445     Document Type: Article

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