Aperture weighted cardiac reconstruction for cone-beam CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3433-3448

  Koken, P ^a   Grass, M ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; DETECTORS; OPTIMIZATION;

APERTURE WEIGHTED CARDIAC RECONSTRUCTION (AWCR); CARDIAC RECONSTRUCTION; CONE-BEAM ACQUISITION; HELICAL TRAJECTORY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FILTER; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART WEIGHT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE QUALITY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SLICE;

ALGORITHMS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745868752     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/14/011     Document Type: Article

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