A review on CT image noise and its denoising

M Diwakar, M Kumar - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2018 - Elsevier
CT imaging is widely used in medical science over the last decades. The process of CT
image reconstruction depends on many physical measurements such as radiation dose …

State of the art: iterative CT reconstruction techniques

LL Geyer, UJ Schoepf, FG Meinel, JW Nance Jr… - Radiology, 2015 - pubs.rsna.org
Owing to recent advances in computing power, iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithms have
become a clinically viable option in computed tomographic (CT) imaging. Substantial …

Lipid availability determines fate of skeletal progenitor cells via SOX9

N Van Gastel, S Stegen, G Eelen, S Schoors, A Carlier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The avascular nature of cartilage makes it a unique tissue,,–, but whether and how the
absence of nutrient supply regulates chondrogenesis remain unknown. Here we show that …

Low-dose X-ray CT reconstruction via dictionary learning

Q Xu, H Yu, X Mou, L Zhang, J Hsieh… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although diagnostic medical imaging provides enormous benefits in the early detection and
accuracy diagnosis of various diseases, there are growing concerns on the potential side …

A three‐dimensional statistical approach to improved image quality for multislice helical CT

JB Thibault, KD Sauer, CA Bouman, J Hsieh - Medical physics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Multislice helical computed tomography scanning offers the advantages of faster acquisition
and wide organ coverage for routine clinical diagnostic purposes. However, image …

Artifact suppressed dictionary learning for low-dose CT image processing

Y Chen, L Shi, Q Feng, J Yang, H Shu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) images are often severely degraded by amplified
mottle noise and streak artifacts. These artifacts are often hard to suppress without …

Strategies for reducing radiation dose in CT

CH McCollough, AN Primak, N Braun… - Radiologic …, 2009 - radiologic.theclinics.com
High-end CT systems allow acquisition of isotropic volumetric data sets that permit high
quality reformatted images and images with less than 1 mm slice thickness. These …

Statistical image reconstruction for polyenergetic X-ray computed tomography

IA Elbakri, JA Fessler - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a statistical image reconstruction method for X-ray computed
tomography (CT) that is based on a physical model that accounts for the polyenergetic X-ray …

[HTML][HTML] Radiation dose reduction in computed tomography: techniques and future perspective

L Yu, X Liu, S Leng, JM Kofler… - Imaging in …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite universal consensus that computed tomography (CT) overwhelmingly benefits
patients when used for appropriate indications, concerns have been raised regarding the …

Distance-driven projection and backprojection in three dimensions

B De Man, S Basu - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Projection and backprojection are operations that arise frequently in tomographic imaging.
Recently, we proposed a new method for projection and backprojection, which we call …