Flat panel detector-based cone beam CT lung imaging: Preliminary system evaluation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 147-158

  Ning, Ruola ^a   Conover, David ^a   Yu, Yong ^a   Cai, Weixing ^a   Lu, Xianghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Circle plus arc scan; Circle plus line scan; Cone beam CT; Cone beam reconstruction algorithm; CT; Flat panel detector; Multi slice CT; Spiral cone beam

Indexed keywords

CIRCLE PLUS LINE SCAN; CONE BEAMS; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; LUNG IMAGING; SPIRAL CONE BEAMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; X RAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844527296     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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