Rotational micro-CT using a clinical C-arm angiography gantry

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4757-4764

  Patel, V ^a   Hoffmann, K R ^b   Ionita, C N ^c   Keleshis, C ^b   Bednarek, D R ^c   Rudin, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact reduction; Clinical rotational angiography; Cone beam CT; High resolution CT; Image registration; Micro CT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS; STENTS;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONE-BEAM CT; HIGH RESOLUTION CT; MICRO CT; ROTATIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CORONARY STENT; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATIONAL MICROANGIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 52949099113     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2989989     Document Type: Article

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