Adaptive temporal resolution optimization in helical cardiac cone beam CT reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3072-3080

  Manzke, R ^a,b   Grass, M ^a   Nielsen, T ^a   Shechter, G ^c   Hawkes, D ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac cone beam computed tomography; Optimization of approximate 3D reconstruction; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

HEART; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; ADAPTIVE RECONSTRUCTION; AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; CARDIAC CONE-BEAM CT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VOLUMETRIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTATION; HELICAL CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0347625749     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1624756     Document Type: Article

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