Hyperfast general-purpose cone-beam spiral backprojection with voxel-specific weighting

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5426-5433

  Steckmann, Sven ^a   Knaup, Michael ^a   Kachelrie, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS; BACK-PROJECTION; BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; CLOSED FORM; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; CONE BEAM; FLOATING POINTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; INTEL CORPORATIONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LOW DOSE; OPERATING SYSTEMS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PROJECTION DATA; SPECIFIC WEIGHTS; SPEED-UP; SPIRAL SCAN; VALUABLE COMPONENT; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 67649160241     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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