Cone-beam filtered backprojection image reconstruction using a factorized weighting function

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Guang Hong ^a,b   Zhuang, Ting Liang ^a   Leng, Shuai ^a   Nett, Brian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cone beam; Image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTORIZATION; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

CONE-BEAM FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; SHIFT-INVARIANT FILTER; WEIGHTING FUNCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 36048980062     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2771643     Document Type: Article

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