Exact and approximate algorithms for helical cone-beam CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2913-2931

  Kudo, Hiroyuki ^a   Rodet, Thomas ^b   Noo, Frédéric ^c   Defrise, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; X RAYS;

FILTERED-BACKPROJECTION (FBP) ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY-MIXING METHODS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 3442891562     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/13/011     Document Type: Article

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