A curve-filtered FDK (C-FDK) reconstruction algorithm for circular cone-beam CT

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-371

  Li, Liang ^a   Xing, Yuxiang ^a   Chen, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Kang, Kejun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C FDK; Cone angle; Cone beam CT; FDK; Image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

C-FDK; CIRCULAR ORBIT; CIRCULAR TRAJECTORY; CONE ANGLE; CONE BEAM ARTIFACTS; CONE-BEAM CT; CONE-BEAM GEOMETRIES; DATA SUFFICIENCY CONDITION; DETECTOR PLANES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FDK; FDK ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; VISIBLE IMAGE;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80052631479     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/XST-2011-0299     Document Type: Article

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