Cone-beam mammo-computed tomography from data along two tilting arcs

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3621-3633

  Zeng, Kai ^a   Yu, Hengyong ^a   Fajardo, Laurie L ^a   Wang, Ge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Exact reconstruction; Katsevich algorithm; Mammography

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; EXACT RECONSTRUCTION; KATSEVICH ALGORITHMS; THEORETICALLY EXACT; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; TYPE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 33749422544     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2336510     Document Type: Article

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