Unified reconstruction framework for multi-modal medical imaging

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-126

  Dong, Di ^a   Tian, Jie ^a   Dai, Yakang ^a   Yan, Guorui ^a   Yang, Fei ^a   Wu, Ping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

acceleration schemes; CT; freehand 3D ultrasound imaging; Unified Reconstruction Software Framework; work flow

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; CT; DATA FLOW; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; FREEHAND 3D ULTRASOUND; IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METHOD COMPARISON; MULTI-MODAL; NEW DEVICES; OVERALL DESIGN; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; RECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; UNIFIED RECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK; WORK FLOW; WORK-FLOWS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79952940876     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/XST-2010-0281     Document Type: Article

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