Asymmetric fan-beam configurations with spatially varying focal lengths and shift-variant filtering reconstruction

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2340-2347

  Yu, Lifeng ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric configuration; Computed tomography; Fan beam projection; Image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ASYMMETRIC FAN BEAM CONFIGURATION; FAN BEAM PROJECTION; SHIFT VARIANT FILTERING RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 9744249533     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1786295     Document Type: Article

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