Super-global distortion correction for a rotational C-arm x-ray image intensifier

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1802-1810

  Liu, Ruijie Rachel ^a   Rudin, Stephen ^b   Bednarek, Daniel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Digital radiography; Distortion correction; Image intensifier

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERRORS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (SOLID STATE); PIXELS; ROBOTIC ARMS; SAMPLING; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DISTORTION CORRECTION; PINCUSHION DISTORTION; STRAY MAGNETIC FIELDS; X-RAY IMAGE INTENSIFIERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; X RAY;

CHAENACTIS;

EID: 0032849383     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598684     Document Type: Article

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