Comparison of methods for suppressing edge and aliasing artefacts in iterative x-ray CT reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1877-1889

  Zbijewski, Wojciech ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION (IR); KAISER-BESSEL FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645290263     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/7/017     Document Type: Article

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