A multilevel domain decomposition algorithm for fast O(N2 log N) reprojection of tomographic images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1573-1582

  Boag, Amir ^a,b   Bresler, Yoram ^a,c   Michielssen, Eric ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

MULTILEVEL DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM; RADON TRANSFORM; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE PROJECTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034258769     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.862638     Document Type: Article

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