New pixellation scheme for CT algebraic reconstruction to exploit matrix symmetries

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 715-726

  Mora, Cibeles ^a   Rodríguez Álvarez, María José ^b   Romero, José Vicente ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ART reconstruction; CT mathematical modelling; Polar coordinates; Rotation symmetries; System matrix

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; GEOMETRY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIXELS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; ROTATION; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

(T ,S)-SPLITTING; ALGEBRAIC METHOD (AM); ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION; APPLIED (CO); CARTESIAN; CARTESIAN GRIDS; ELSEVIER (CO); FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); FIGURES OF MERIT (FOM); IN ORDER; NEW MODEL; POLAR MATRIX; REASONABLE TIME; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; SCANNER GEOMETRY; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; SPEED UPS; SYSTEM MATRICES; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 45049085170     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2008.02.019     Document Type: Article

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