Spiral CT: Current status and future directions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3149, Issue , 1997, Pages 203-212

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam; Fan beam; Iterative reconstruction; Spiral helical scanning; X ray computed tomography (CT); X ray micro CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SCANNING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

CONE-BEAM; FAN-BEAM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; SPIRAL/HELICAL SCANNING; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); X-RAY MICRO-CT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042436870     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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