Three-dimensional imaging properties of rotation-free square and hexagonal micro-CT systems

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 916-923

  Quan, Enzhuo Michelle ^a,b   Lalush, David S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Image reconstruction; Micro computed tomography (CT); X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; ANGULAR SAMPLING; AREA DETECTORS; CONE-BEAM PROJECTION; HEXAGONAL GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LINEAR ARRAYS; MICRO CT; MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MONOCHROMATIC SOURCES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SIMULATION STUDIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY SOURCES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REPAIR; ROTATION; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77749291720     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2039799     Document Type: Article

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