Physical Evaluation of the Weighted Feldkamp Algorithms Applied to the 256-Detector Row CT Scanner for Volumetric Cine Imaging

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 701-712

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Endo, Masahiro ^b   Kondo, Chisato ^b   Tanada, Shuji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

computed tomography (CT); Cone beam; four dimensional; image quality; temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; EVALUATION; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MOTION; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33646176962     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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