Volume fusion for two-circular-orbit cone-beam tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 5960-5966

  Chen, Zikuan ^a   Ning, Ruola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; FUNCTIONS;

FELDKAMP-DAVIS-KRESS (FDK) ALGORITHM; TWO-CIRCULAR-ORBIT CONE-BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUME FUSION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33749852766     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005960     Document Type: Article

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