Hybrid cone-beam tomographic reconstruction: Incorporation of prior anatomical models to compensate for missing data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-83

  Sadowsky, Ofri ^a   Lee, Junghoon ^a   Sutter, E Grant ^b   Wall, Simon J ^b   Prince, Jerry L ^a   Taylor, Russell H ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical atlas; C arm; computed tomography (CT); cone beam reconstruction; hybrid reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL ATLAS; C-ARM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); CONE-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION; HYBRID RECONSTRUCTION;

DATA VISUALIZATION; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; ROBOTIC ARMS; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHIMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CHIMERA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650887919     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2060491     Document Type: Article

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