Sinogram restoration in computed tomography with an edge-preserving penalty

Constrained sinogram restoration for limited-angle tomography

Low-Dose Dual-Energy Computed Tomography for PET Attenuation Correction with Statistical Sinogram Restoration

Dual-energy (DE) X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been proposed as an useful tool in various applications. One promising application is DECT with low radiation doses used for attenuation correction in positron emission tomography (PET). In low-dose DECT, conventional methods for sinogram decomposition have been based on logarithmic transformations and ignored noise properties, leading to very...

Edge–Preserving Metal Artifact Reduction in Computed Tomography

Esther Meyer1,2, Rainer Raupach2, Michael Lell3, Bernhard Schmidt2, and Marc Kachelrieß1,4 1Institute of Medical Physics, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany  2Siemens Healthcare, Forchheim, Germany 3Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany 4Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cance...

Comparison of Quadratic- and Median-Based Roughness Penalties for Penalized-Likelihood Sinogram Restoration in Computed Tomography

We have compared the performance of two different penalty choices for a penalized-likelihood sinogram-restoration strategy we have been developing. One is a quadratic penalty we have employed previously and the other is a new median-based penalty. We compared the approaches to a noniterative adaptive filter that loosely but not explicitly models data statistics. We found that the two approaches...

3D Edge-Preserving Image Enhancement for Computed Tomography

Computed tomography (CT) images exhibit a variable amount of noise and blur, depending on the physical characteristics of the apparatus and on the selected reconstruction method. Standard algorithms tend to favor reconstruction speed over resolution, thereby jeopardizing applications where accuracy is critical. In this paper, we propose to enhance CT images by applying half-quadratic edge-prese...