Quantum noise properties of CT images with anatomical textured backgrounds across reconstruction algorithms: FBP and SAFIRE

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Solomon, Justin ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

background anatomy; computed tomography; image quality; iterative reconstruction; quantum noise

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; QUANTUM NOISE; TEXTURES; TISSUE;

BACKGROUND ANATOMY; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; NON LINEAR RECONSTRUCTION; NONLINEAR RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; VESSEL-LIKE STRUCTURES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; LUNG; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; NOISE MAGNITUDE; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NOISE REDUCTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM NOISE PROPERTY; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; SOFT TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVICES; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84920190694     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4893497     Document Type: Article

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