Computed tomography simulation with superquadrics

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3136-3143

  Zhu, Jiehua ^a   Zhao, Shiying ^b   Ye, Yangbo ^c,d   Wang, Yangbo ^c,d  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cone beam; Superquadrics; Torus; X ray transform

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; X RAYS;

CONE BEAM; CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SUPERQUADRICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT; TORUS; X-RAY TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; X RAY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 27244447259     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2040727     Document Type: Article

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