Iterative X-ray cone-beam tomography for metal artifact reduction and local region reconstruction

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 58-65

  Wang, Ge ^a   Vannier, Michael W ^a   Cheng, Ping Chin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic reconstruction technique; Computed tomography; Cone beam; Expectation maximization; Iterative deblurring; Local reconstruction; Metal artifact reduction; Microtomography; X ray

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033431430     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927699000057     Document Type: Article

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