Weighted FBP - A simple approximated 3D FBP algorithm for multislice spiral CT with good dose usage for arbitrary pitch

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2209-2218

  Stierstorfer, Karl ^a   Rauscher, Annabella ^a   Boese, Jan ^a   Bruder, Herbert ^a   Schaller, Stefan ^a   Flohr, Thomas ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICINE;

LINEAR CONVOLUTION; WEIGHTED FILTERED BACKPROJECTION (WTBP);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 3042821092     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/11/007     Document Type: Article

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