A Rotating and Warping Projector/Backprojector for Fan-Beam and Cone-Beam Iterative Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 2807-2811

  Zeng, G L ^a   Hsieh, Y L ^a   Gullberg, G T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON EMISSION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS;

CONE BEAM; FAN BEAM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SYSTEM POINT RESPONSE FUNCTION; VOXEL VALUES; WEIGHTED SUMMATION;

PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028727372     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.340651     Document Type: Article

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