High performance cone-beam spiral backprojection with voxel-specific weighting

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3691-3708

  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; BACKPROJECT; BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; CLOSED FORM; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; CONE BEAM; FELDKAMP ALGORITHMS; FLOATING POINTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; INTEL CORPORATIONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; OPERATING SYSTEMS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RAY-DRIVEN; SPECIFIC WEIGHTS; SPEED-UPS; SPIRAL SCAN; SPIRAL TRAJECTORIES; VALUABLE COMPONENT; VECTORIZATION; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FUNCTION EVALUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PIXELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REPAIR;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 70149108975     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/12/006     Document Type: Article

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