A study of reconstruction artifacts in cone beam tomography using filtered backprojection and iterative EM algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 759-767

  Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a   Gullberg, Grant T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING--RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ITERATIVE METHODS;

BACKPROJECTION OPERATIONS; CONE BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; DATA TRUNCATION ARTIFACTS; ITERATIVE EM ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025419553     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.106711     Document Type: Article

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