Cone-beam CT image reconstruction with extended z range

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3363-3370

  Grimmer, Rainer ^a   Oelhafen, Markus ^b   Elstrøm, Ulrik ^c   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (Switzerland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT (CBCT); Dose usage; Extended z range; Image quality

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ONCOLOGY; PIXELS;

CONEBEAM CT; DOSE USAGE; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; EXTENDED Z RANGE; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE CONVOLUTION; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FELDKAMP DAVIS KRESS ALGORITHM; FLAT PANEL DETECTOR; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE BACKPROJECTION TECHNIQUE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 67649576929     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3148560     Document Type: Article

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