Advances in computed tomography imaging technology

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages 431-453

  Ginat, Daniel Thomas ^a   Gupta, Rajiv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam CT; dual energy CT; extreme multidetector CT; iterative reconstruction; phase contrast CT; portable CT

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS;

CONE-BEAM CT; DUAL-ENERGY CT; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR CT; PHASE-CONTRAST CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTABLE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84904312033     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-121813-113601     Document Type: Review

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