Anti-aliased three-dimensional cone-beam reconstruction of low-contrast objects with algebraic methods

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 519-537

  Mueller, Klaus ^a,b   Yagel, Roni ^a   Wheller, John J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL DISTORTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; ALIASING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIONS; RELAXATION COEFFICIENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; VOLUME INITIALIZATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033237794     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.781017     Document Type: Article

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