Extension of the reconstruction field of view and truncation correction using sinogram decomposition

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1593-1604

  Zamyatin, Alexander A ^a   Nakanishi, Satoru ^b  

^a Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA   (United States)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fan beam CT; Field of view extension; Sinogram decomposition; Truncation correction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; DETECTOR COVERAGES; ESTIMATION METHODS; FAN-BEAM CT; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH-CONTRAST OBJECTS; IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; SINOGRAMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 34247584689     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2721656     Document Type: Article

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