General reconstruction theory for multislice X-ray computed tomography with a gantry tilt

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1109-1116

  Noo, Frédéric ^a   Defrise, Michel ^b   Kudo, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cone beam tomography; Helical CT; Image reconstruction; Muitislice CT

Indexed keywords

CARTESIAN GRID; CONE-BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; SCANNING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 4444346222     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.829337     Document Type: Article

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