Artifact analysis and reconstruction improvement in helical cardiac cone beam CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1150-1164

  Manzke, Robert ^a,b   Grass, Michael ^a   Hawkes, David ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b Imaging Sciences Group   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artifact analysis; Cardiac cone beam computed tomography; Improvement of 3 D cardiac reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT ANALYSIS; CARDIAC CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; IMPROVEMENT OF 3-D CARDIAC RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 4444284278     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.830804     Document Type: Article

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