The point spread function of spiral CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 5307-5322

  Schwarzband, Gil ^a   Kiryati, Nahum ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTEFACTS; IMPULSE FUNCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SLICE-SENSITIVITY PROFILE (SSP);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATHEMATICS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 27644577736     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/22/007     Document Type: Article

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