Region-of-interest image reconstruction in circular cone-beam microCT

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4923-4933

  Cho, Seungryong ^a   Bian, Junguo ^a   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a   Chen, Chin Tu ^a   He, Tong Chuan ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

BACKPROJECTION FILTRATIONS; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; REGION OF INTEREST; REGION-OF-INTEREST IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRUNCATED CONE BEAM DATA;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36649008065     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2804924     Document Type: Article

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