A unified reconstruction framework for both parallel-beam and variable focal-length fan-beam collimators by a cormack-type inversion of exponential radon transform

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-65

  You, Jiangsheng ^a,b   Liang, Zhengrong ^a,b   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Circular harmonic decomposition; Inverse exponential radon transform; Variable focal length fan beam geometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

CIRCULAR HARMONIC DECOMPOSITION; RADON TRANSFORM; VARIABLE-FOCAL-LENGTH FAN-BEAM COLLIMATORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032587691     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.750255     Document Type: Article

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