Iterative volume of interest image reconstruction in helical cone beam X-Ray CT using a stored system matrix approach

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Xu, Jingyan ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a  

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

Author keywords

CT artifacts reduction; dose reduction; helical cone beam computed tomography; iterative image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; BACKWARD PROJECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CLINICAL SCANNERS; CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM CT; CT ARTIFACTS REDUCTION; DOSE REDUCTION; FIELD OF VIEWS; HELICAL CONE-BEAMS; HELICAL SOURCE TRAJECTORY; IMAGE SLICES; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; NON-CARTESIAN GRIDS; ON CURRENTS; PATIENT DATA; SOURCE POSITION; SYSTEM MATRICES; VOLUME OF INTEREST; X-RAY CT;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955760127     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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