An alternative solution to the nonuniform noise propagation problem in fan-beam FBP image reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3389-3394

  Wang, Jing ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^b   Li, Tianfang ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fan beam geometry; Filtered backprojection; Linear interpolation; Noise property; Spatially variant weighting

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION;

FAN BEAMS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; NOISE PROPERTIES; SPATIALLY-VARIANT WEIGHTING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FILTRATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 28044455874     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2064807     Document Type: Article

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