Development and evaluation of an exact fan-beam reconstruction algorithm using an equal weighting scheme via locally compensated filtered backprojection (LCFBP)

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 475-481

  Chen, Guang Hong ^a,b   Tokalkanahalli, Ranjini ^a   Zhuang, Tingliang ^a   Nett, Brian E ^a   Hsieh, Jiang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose utilization; Equal weighting; Exact reconstruction; Fan beam; FBP; Supershort

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE FILTERS; PHANTOMS;

EQUAL WEIGHTING; EXACT RECONSTRUCTION; FAN BEAMS; FAN-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; RECONSTRUCTION FORMULAS; SUPER-SHORT;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 31844447869     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2165416     Document Type: Article

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