Region-of-interest tomography using filtered backprojection: Assessing the practical limits

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-82

  Kyrieleis, A ^a   Titarenko, V ^a   Ibison, M ^a   Connolley, T ^b   Withers, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT; Imaging bone; Medical; Off centre RoI; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CT; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; IMAGING BONE; MEDICAL; OFF-CENTER ROI; REGION-OF-INTEREST; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SIMPLE++; SINOGRAMS; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAMERA; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650058535     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2010.03408.x     Document Type: Article

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