Median prior constrained TV algorithm for sparse view low-dose CT reconstruction

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue , 2015, Pages 117-131

  Liu, Yi ^a   Shangguan, Hong ^a   Zhang, Quan ^a   Zhu, Hongqing ^b,c   Shu, Huazhong ^c,d   Gui, Zhiguo ^a  

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Centre de Recherche en Information Biomedicale Sino Francais CRIBs   (France)

Author keywords

Low dose CT; Median prior; Reconstruction; Sparse view; Total variation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY TUBES;

ALTERNATING OPTIMIZATIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; LOW-DOSE CT; MEDIAN PRIOR; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; SPARSE-VIEW; TOTAL VARIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 84925687963     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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