New sinogram filter design utilizing sinusoidal trajectories

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2770-2774

  Peltonen, Sari ^b   Ruotsalainen, Ulla ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Filtering; Sinogram; Stackgram

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FILTER DESIGN; SINOGRAM DOMAIN FILTERING; STACKGRAMS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 38549091057     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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