An approximate short scan helical FDK cone beam algorithm based on nutating curved surfaces satisfying the Tuy's condition

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1529-1536

  Hu, Jicun ^a   Tam, Kwok ^b   Qi, Jinyi ^a,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Tam Inc   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam; Helical CT; Image reconstruction; Short scan

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TABLE LOOKUP;

CARTESIAN COORDINATE; CONE BEAM; CONE BEAM ALGORITHMS; HELICAL CT; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; QUASI-EXACT ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SHORT SCAN;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 21144453391     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1916077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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