Visual optimality and stability analysis of 3DCT scan positions

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1477-1486

  Amirkhanov, Artem ^a   Heinzl, Christoph ^b   Reiter, Michael ^b   Gröller, Eduard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Industrial 3DCT; penetration length analysis; Radon space analysis; simulation; stability analysis

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; ANALYSIS TOOLS; CONE-BEAM X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; CT SCANNING; CT SYSTEM; GEOMETRICAL SURFACES; INDUSTRIAL 3DCT; OPTIMALITY; PENETRATION LENGTH; PENETRATION-LENGTH ANALYSIS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; REAL WORLD DATA; SIMULATION; SIMULATION DATA; SIMULATION-BASED; STABILITY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

DATA VISUALIZATION; INDUSTRY; RADON; STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149247297     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.214     Document Type: Article

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