Direct determination of geometric alignment parameters for cone-beam scanners

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1633-1660

  Mennessier, C ^a   Clackdoyle, R ^a,b   Noo, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCANNING; TESTING; WAVE EFFECTS; X RAY DETECTORS;

CALIBRATION PHANTOM; COMPREHENSIVE METHOD; DIRECT DETERMINATION; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; GEOMETRIC ALIGNMENT; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; MATHEMATICAL JUSTIFICATION; MEASUREMENT INFORMATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 63649101026     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/6/016     Document Type: Article

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