Fast volume scanning approaches by x-ray-computed tomography

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1492-1502

  Fuchs, Theobald O J ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Dose; Multislice spiral CT (MSCT); Reconstruction algorithms; Spiral CT; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEALTH CARE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DOSE; MULTISCALE SPIRAL CT (MSCT); RECOSNTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SPIRAL CT; X-RAY DETECTORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21244477910     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.817880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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