Penalized-likelihood sinogram smoothing for low-dose CT
Penalized-likelihood sinogram smoothing for low-dose CT
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DOI:
10.1118/1.1915015
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发表时间:
2005-06-01
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3.8
通讯作者:
La Rivière, PJ
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作者:
La Rivière, PJ
We have developed a sinogram smoothing approach for low-dose computed tomography (CT) that seeks to estimate the line integrals needed for reconstruction from the noisy measurements by maximizing a penalized-likelihood objective function. The maximization is performed by an algorithm derived by use of the separable paraboloidal surrogates framework. The approach overcomes some of the computational limitations of a previously proposed spline-based penalized-likelihood sinogram smoothing approach, and it is found to yield better resolution-variance tradeoff's than this spline-based approach as well an existing adaptive filtering approach. Such sinogram smoothing approaches could be valuable when applied to the low-dose data acquired in CT screening exams, such as those being considered for lung-nodule detection. (c) 2005 American Association of Physicists in Medicine.