Analytical inversion formula for uniformly attenuated fan-beam projections

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 243-249

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

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

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Fan beam; Image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CONVOLUTION BACKPROPAGATION; FAN BEAM PROJECTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0031124397     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.568816     Document Type: Article

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