An immediate after-backprojection filtering method with blob-shaped window functions for voxel-based iterative reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5825-5842

  Zhang, Bin ^a   Zeng, Gengsheng L ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

AFTER BACKPROJECTION FILTERING METHOD (ABF); CONTRAST RECOVERY COEFFICIENT (CRC); ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIC BASIS FUNCTIONS; WINDOW FUNCTIONS;

PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

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

EID: 33846862259     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/22/007     Document Type: Article

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