Novel approach to extend the scanner coverage beyond detector field-of-view

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-66

  Hsieh, Jiang ^a   Chao, Edward ^a   Grekowicz, Brian ^a   Horst, Amy ^a   McOlash, Scott ^a   Myers, Tom J ^a  

^a GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Extended FOV; Oncology planning; Truncated projection

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED FOV; FIELD-OF-VIEW (FOV); ONCOLOGY PLANNING; TRUNCATED PROJECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA REDUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PHOTODETECTORS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; RADIOLOGY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042639641     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.534421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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