Panoramic cone beam computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2930-2946

  Chang, Jenghwa ^a,b   Zhou, Lili ^b   Wang, Song ^b   Clifford Chao, K S ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

image stitching; panoramic CBCT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE STITCHING; MATHEMATICAL CARDIAC TORSOS; PANORAMIC CBCT; QUALITY OF RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTION ARTIFACTS; SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84861602565     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4704640     Document Type: Article

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