Physical characterization of a new ct iterative reconstruction method operating in sinogram space

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 263-271

  Ghetti, Caterina ^a   Palleri, Francesca ^a   Serreli, Giulio ^a   Ortenzia, Ornella ^a   Ruffini, Livia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880649834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v14i4.4347     Document Type: Article

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