Artifacts associated with implementation of the Grangeat formula

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2871-2880

  Lee, Seung Wook ^a,b   Cho, Gyuseong ^b   Wang, Ge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artifact; Computed tomography (CT); Cone beam CT; Exact reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADON;

ARTIFACT; BILINEAR INTERPOLATION METHOD; CONE BEAM RECONSTRUCTION; CONE-BEAM CT; CONE-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; EXACT RECONSTRUCTION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

RADON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 12244270390     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1522748     Document Type: Article

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