Virtual alignment of x-ray cone-beam tomography system using two calibration aperture measurements

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 381-386

  Bronnikov, Andrei V ^a,b,c,d  

^a KEMA   (Netherlands)

^b KUTATELADZE INSTITUTE OF THERMOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c KHRISTIANOVICH INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^d Ctr for Computer Technologies Ltd   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

3 D image reconstruction; Nondestructive testing; Tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001091515     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602100     Document Type: Article

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