Iterative reconstruction in X-ray fluorescence tomography based on radon inversion

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 438-450

  Miqueles, Eduardo X ^a   De Pierro, Alvaro R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alternate methods; generalized radon transform; inversion; iterative methods; X ray fluorescence computed tomography (XFCT)

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE METHOD; ALTERNATING METHOD; ANALYTIC METHOD; ATTENUATED RADON TRANSFORMS; ATTENUATION MAPS; EMISSION DATA; GENERALIZED RADON TRANSFORM; INVERSION; INVERSION ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; NEW APPROACHES; RADON INVERSION; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (XFCT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADON; X RAYS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 79551614110     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2085011     Document Type: Article

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