A comparison of 4D cone-beam CT algorithms for slowly rotating scanners

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3764-3769

  Bergner, Frank ^a   Berkus, Timo ^b   Oelhafen, Markus ^b   Kunz, Patrik ^b   Pan, Tinsu ^c   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4 D reconstruction; Cone beam CT CBCT; PICCS; TV

Indexed keywords

4D RECONSTRUCTION; ADAPTIVE PHASE; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL WORKFLOW; COMPRESSED SENSING; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; IMAGING UNITS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LINEAR PARTICLES; LOWER NOISE; MOTION PHASE; ROTATING DEVICE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TOTAL-VARIATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; REPAIR; ROTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951201670     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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