Handling of Long Objects in iterative improvement of nonexact reconstruction in helical cone-beam CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 935-940

  Magnusson, Maria ^b   Danielsson, Per Erik ^a,b   Sunnegårdh, Johan ^b  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Filtered backprojection; Helical cone beam CT; Iterative reconstruction; Long Object Problem

Indexed keywords

FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; HELICAL CONE-BEAM COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LONG OBJECT PROBLEM;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SCANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33746255341     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.876156     Document Type: Article

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