Three-dimensional focus of attention for iterative cone-beam micro-CT reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4533-4546

  Benson, T M ^a   Gregor, J ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SAVINGS; DATA-DRIVEN PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUE; IMAGE VOLUME; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748536702     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/18/006     Document Type: Article

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