Fast ray-tracing technique to calculate line integral paths in voxel arrays

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2808-2812

  Zhao, Huaxia ^a   Reader, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

List mode; Projection; Ray driven; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

LINE INTEGRAL PATHS; LIST-MODE; PROJECTION; RAY-DRIVEN;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 11844253219     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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