New approaches to region of interest computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2868-2878

  Maa, Clemens ^a   Knaup, Michael ^a   Kachelrie, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography (CT); region of interest imaging; spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; FIELD OF MEASUREMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANS; REGION-OF-INTEREST IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRUNCATED PROJECTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79958836563     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3583696     Document Type: Article

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