Reduction of Truncation Artifacts in Fan Beam Transmission by Using Parallel Beam Emission Data

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1310-1320

  Pan, Tin Su ^a   King, Michael A ^b   Penney, Bill C ^c   Rajeevan, N ^d   Luo, Der Shan ^b   Case, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Dept of Radiology University of Chicago ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT EMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

ATTENUATION MAP; COMPTON SCATTER ENERGY; FAN BEAM TRANSMISSION; PARALLEL BEAM EMISSION DATA; PHOTOPEAK; TRUNCATION ARTIFACTS REDUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029357147     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467864     Document Type: Article

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