Cardiac cone-beam CT volume reconstruction using ART

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 851-860

  Nielsen, T ^a   Manzke, R ^a   Proksa, R ^a   Grass, M ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

ART; Cardiac cone beam computed tomography; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

HEART; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; ANALYTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; CARDIAC CONE-BEAM CT; CONE BEAM ARTIFACTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; TECHNOLOGY; X RAY;

EID: 17144370941     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1869052     Document Type: Article

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