Region-of-Interest Imaging in Cone Beam 3-D CT

Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-26

  Tam, K C ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Medical diagnosis; Radon data; Region of interest imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING;

CONE BEAM X RAYS; RADON DATA; REGION OF INTEREST IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032027476     PISSN: 01959298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022628412394     Document Type: Article

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