Self-calibration of a cone-beam micro-CT system

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-58

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

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact reduction; Cone beam reconstruction; Micro CT; Self calibration

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; CONE BEAM RECONSTRUCTION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH QUALITY RECONSTRUCTION; MICRO CT; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SELF CALIBRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149121295     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3026615     Document Type: Article

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