High-Quality volumetric reconstruction on optimal lattices for computed tomography

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1023-1030

  Finkbeiner, Bernhard ^a   Alim, Usman R ^a   Van De Ville, Dimitri ^b   Möller, Torsten ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NOISE ABATEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUME RENDERING;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BODY-CENTERED CUBIC; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRIC RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 68549101598     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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