Alignment of a volumetric tomography system

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1472-1481

  Stevens, Grant M ^a   Saunders, Rowland ^b   Pelc, Norbert J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Interpolation; System alignment; Tomosynthesis; Volumetric tomography

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON FLAT-PANEL; DATA INTERPOLATION; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; GEOMETRICAL MISALIGNMENT; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SOFTWARE-BASED METHOD; TOMOSYNTHESIS; VOLUMETRIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0034926538     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1382609     Document Type: Article

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