Cone beam micro-CT system for small animal maging and performance evaluation

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tian, Jie ^a   Zhu, Shouping ^a   Yan, Guorui ^a   Qin, Chenghu ^a   Feng, Jinchao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; ANATOMIC INFORMATION; BIOLUMINESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM MICRO-CT; CONTRAST AGENT; DATA PREPROCESSING; DUAL-MODALITY SYSTEMS; FLAT-PANEL X-RAY DETECTOR; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; GEOMETRY CALIBRATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; LOW CONTRAST RESOLUTION; MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; MICROFOCUS X-RAY SOURCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; SINGLE SCAN; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WHOLE-BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; X RAY APPARATUS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 70349922904     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/960573     Document Type: Article

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