Evaluation of sparse-view reconstruction from flat-panel-detector cone-beam CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 6575-6599

  Bian, Junguo ^a   Siewerdsen, Jeffrey H ^b   Han, Xiao ^a   Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Prince, Jerry L ^c   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DESIGN; ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING TASK; POTENTIAL UTILITY; RADIATION DOSE; SCANNING CONDITIONS; TOTAL-VARIATION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT REHABILITATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 78649995122     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/22/001     Document Type: Article

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