Practical strategies for the clinical implementation of matrix inversion tomosynthesis (MITS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5030 I, Issue , 2003, Pages 379-390

  Godfrey, Devon J ^a   Rader, Amber ^c   Dobbins III, James T ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Digital radiography; Flat panel detector; Image retention; Limited angle tomography; Linear tomography; Matrix inversion; Tomographic blur; Tomographic reconstruction; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EXTRAPOLATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADIATION DETECTORS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHIC BLUR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042376270     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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