Algorithm for hyperfast cone-beam spiral backprojection

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-260

  Steckmann, Sven ^a   Knaup, Michael ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backprojection; CT; High performance computing; Image reconstruction; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROJECTION; BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; CLOSED FORM; COMPLEX FUNCTIONS; CONE BEAM; CT; DATA-LEVEL PARALLELISM; FELDKAMP ALGORITHMS; FLOATING POINTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTEL CORPORATIONS; SPIRAL CT; SPIRAL SCAN; VECTORIZATION; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REPAIR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM SPIRAL BACKPROJECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STORAGE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIRAL CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952744309     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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