Tilted plane Feldkamp type reconstruction algorithm for spiral cone beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3455-3467

  Yan, Ming ^a   Zhang, Cishen ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Cone beam; Image reconstruction; Multislice CT; Optimization; Tilted plane

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION;

CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; MULTISLICE CT; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SLICE-SENSITIVITY PROFILES; TILTED PLANE; TILTED PLANE FELDKAMP TYPE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 28044434400     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2098154     Document Type: Article

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