Why do commercial CT scanners still employ traditional, filtered back-projection for image reconstruction?

Inverse Problems

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Pan, Xiaochuan ^a,b   Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Vannier, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

APPLICATION-ORIENTED; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; COMPUTER PERFORMANCE; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SOLUTION OF INVERSE PROBLEMS; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873281232     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/25/12/123009     Document Type: Review

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