Evaluation and empirical analysis of an exact FBP algorithm for spiral cone-beam CT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 II, Issue , 2003, Pages 663-674

  Katsevich, A ^a   Lauritsch, G ^b   Bruder, H ^b   Flohr, T ^b   Stierstorfer, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone beam data; Exact inversion; Filtered back projection algorithm; Spiral tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING;

SPIRAL TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041874882     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.481348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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