An Improved Algorithm for Reprojecting Rays Through Pixel Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1982, Pages 192-196

  Joseph, Peter M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING - RECONSTRUCTION;

PIXEL IMAGES; RAYS REPROJECTION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0020204372     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.1982.4307572     Document Type: Article

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