Extended parallel backprojection for standard three-dimensional and phase-correlated four-dimensional axial and spiral cone-beam CT with arbitrary pitch, arbitrary cone-angle, and 100% dose usage

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1623-1641

  Kachelrieß, Marc ^a   Knaup, Michael ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4 D reconstruction; Cardiac imaging; Cone beam CT (CBCT); Image quality

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOMS;

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC RECONSTRUCTION; CONEBEAM CT; FELDKAMP-TYPE ALGORITHMS; SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); WEIGHTED BACKPROJECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STERNUM; THORAX; X RAY;

EID: 3042640696     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1755569     Document Type: Article

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