Motion-compensated iterative cone-beam CT image reconstruction with adapted blobs as basis functions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6777-6797

  Isola, A A ^a,b   Ziegler, A ^a   Koehler, T ^a   Niessen, W J ^b,c   Grass, M ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION ESTIMATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RESTORATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

BACK PROJECTIONS; BASIS FUNCTIONS; EFFICIENT METHODS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; IMAGE VOLUMES; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS; LINE INTEGRALS; MOTION VECTOR FIELDS; MOVING OBJECTS; PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES;

REPAIR;

ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 58149236844     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/23/009     Document Type: Article

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