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Does Noise Weighting Matter in CT Iterative Reconstruction?

This paper uses a computer simulation to investigate whether a more accurate noise model always results in less noisy images in CT iterative reconstruction. We start with a hypothetic non-realistic noise model for the CT measurements, by assuming that the attenuation coefficient is energy independent and there is no scattering. A variance formula for this model is derived and presented. Based on this model, computer simulations are conducted with 12 different ad hoc noise weighting methods, and their results are compared. The simple Poisson noise model performs better than other more accurate models, when the projection data are generated with the hypothetical noise model. A more accurate noise model does not necessarily produce a less-noisy image. In this counter example, modeling the system's electronic noise during reconstruction does not help reducing the image noise. A simpler noise model sometimes can outperform the complicated and more accurate noise model.

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