OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the image noise, low-contrast resolution, image quality, and spatial resolution of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction in low-dose body CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction was used to scan the American College of Radiology phantom at the American College of Radiology reference value and at one-ha...

We present in this work a comparison among four algorithms for transmission tomography. The algorithms are based on the formalism of POCS (Projection onto Convex Sets): ART (Algebraic Reconstruction Technique), SIRT (Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique), sequential POCS and parallel POCS. We found that the use of adequate a priori knowledge about the solutions, expressed by convex s...

Iterative reconstruction algorithms produce accurate images without streak artifacts as in ®ltered backprojection. They allow improved incorporation of important corrections for image degrading effects, such as attenuation, scatter and depth-dependent resolution. Only some corrections, which are important for accurate reconstruction in positron emission tomography and single photon emission com...

An algorithm for the image dependent control of the camera viewpoint is presented, which is applied to the automatic reconstruction of 3D objects. For computer animation applications, ”shape from silhouettes” using equally distributed viewpoints is an often used reconstruction technique. With respect to the local reconstruction errors, the use of equally distributed camera views is unfavourable...

conclusion safire reconstruction provided better coronary image quality and displayed the number, morphology, and surrounding lumen of calcium plaques more accurately than traditional fbp reconstruction, with safire3 achieving the best results. results the subjective ratings of image quality using safire1–safire5 reconstructions were significantly higher than those using fbp, with safire3 achie...