Reduction of artifacts induced by misaligned geometry in cone-beam CT

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1461-1471

  Sun, Yi ^a   Hou, Ying ^a   Hu, Jiasheng ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cone beam; FBP; Misalignment

Indexed keywords

CONE BEAM; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION (FBP); SCANNER MISALIGNMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MECHANICAL PROBE; MISALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34447498810     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.891166     Document Type: Article

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