A new weighting function to achieve high temporal resolution in circular cone-beam CT with shifted detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5898-5909

  Maaß, Clemens ^a   Knaup, Michael ^a   Lapp, Robert ^b   Karolczak, Marek ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b VAMP Verfahren und Apparate der Medizinischen Physik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT (CBCT); Dynamic CT; Image quality; Micro CT

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; X RAY DETECTORS;

CONEBEAM CT; DYNAMIC CT; FIELD OF MEASUREMENTS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LATERAL DIMENSION; MICRO CT; TEMPORAL WINDOWS; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 56749183976     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3013700     Document Type: Article

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