Strip and Line Path Integrals with a Square Pixel Matrix: A Unified Theory for Computational CT Projections

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 355-363

  Lo, Shih Chung B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

PATH INTEGRALS; SQUARE PIXEL MATRIX; UNIFIED PATH INTEGRAL THEORY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0024130717     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.14519     Document Type: Article

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