Reliable automatic alignment of tomographic projection data by passive auto-focus

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4934-4945

  Kingston, A ^a   Sakellariou, A ^a   Varslot, T ^a   Myers, G ^a   Sheppard, A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

alignment; auto focus; geometric calibration; microtomography; tomography

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CALIBRATION; EDGE DETECTION; GEOMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY; AUTO FOCUS; AUTO-FOCUS ALGORITHM; AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 80052400554     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3609096     Document Type: Article

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