Directional view interpolation for compensation of sparse angular sampling in cone-beam CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1011-1022

  Bertram, Matthias ^a   Wiegert, Jens ^a   Schäfer, Dirk ^a   Aach, Til ^b   Rose, Georg ^a,c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aliasing; Computed tomography (CT); Image quality; Interpolation; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

ALIASING; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIRECTIONAL INTERPOLATION; INTERMEDIATE VIEW; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; STRUCTURE TENSORS; VIEW INTERPOLATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 67649515373     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2011550     Document Type: Article

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