Least-error projection sorting to optimize retrospectively gated cardiac micro-CT of free-breathing mice

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1452-1461

  Armitage, Stephen E J ^a,b   Pollmann, Steven I ^a   Detombe, Sarah A ^a,b   Drangova, Maria ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cardiac micro CT; missing view artifact; MTF; optimization; resolution; retrospective gating

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER RATES; DIGITAL STORAGE; ERRORS; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; SORTING;

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); MICRO CT; MISSING VIEW ARTIFACT; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE GATING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

MUS;

EID: 84857845181     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3681949     Document Type: Article

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