A local shift-variant Fourier model and experimental validation of circular cone-beam computed tomography artifacts

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 500-512

  Bartolac, Steven ^a   Clackdoyle, Rolf ^b   Noo, Frederic ^c   Siewerdsen, Jeff ^a,d   Moseley, Douglas ^a   Jaffray, David ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cone beam artifacts; Cone beam CT; Feldkamp artifacts; Mini disk

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CONE BEAM ARTIFACTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FELDKAMP; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; MINI-DISK; THEORETICAL MODELING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACRYLIC ACID; POLYURETHAN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 59249100192     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3062875     Document Type: Article

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