Radial differential interior tomography and its image reconstruction with differentiated backprojection and projection onto convex sets

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Tang, Shaojie ^a,b   Tang, Xiangyang ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b XI AN UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

CT; derivative backprojection; interior tomography; projection onto convex sets; reconstruction; tomography

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SET THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

BACK-PROJECTION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DIFFERENTIATED BACK PROJECTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; INTERIOR TOMOGRAPHY; PROJECTION ONTO CONVEX SETS; THE REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL DIFFERENTIAL INTERIOR TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TARGET ORGAN; ANIMAL; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; SHEEP; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SHEEP; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883756139     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4812676     Document Type: Article

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