Cone beam x-ray luminescence computed tomography: A feasibility study

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Dongmei ^a   Zhu, Shouping ^a   Yi, Huangjian ^a   Zhang, Xianghan ^a   Chen, Duofang ^a   Liang, Jimin ^a   Tian, Jie ^a,b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; computed tomography; cone beam; X ray luminescence

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; X RAYS;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; CONE BEAM; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SPARSE REGULARIZATIONS; TRUNCATED CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHODS; X RAY LUMINESCENCE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CAMERA; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM X RAY LUMINESCENCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUMINESCENCE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X IRRADIATION; X RAY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84874784942     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4790694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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