Fast direct Fourier methods, based on one- and two-pass coordinate transformations, yield accurate reconstructions of x-ray CT clinical images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 443-463

  Bellon, Pier Luigi ^a   Lanzavecchia, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030892749     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/3/001     Document Type: Article

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