Cardiac imaging using multislice computed tomography scanners: technical considerations

M Vembar, MJ Walker, PC Johnson - Coronary artery disease, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Conventional coronary angiography is currently the gold standard in the detection and
diagnosis of coronary artery disease. This modality, however, is invasive in nature. Hence …

General reconstruction theory for multislice X-ray computed tomography with a gantry tilt

F Noo, M Defrise, H Kudo - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses image reconstruction with a tilted gantry in multislice computed
tomography (CT) with helical (spiral) data acquisition. The reconstruction problem with …

The frequency split method for helical cone‐beam reconstruction

G Shechter, T Köhler, A Altman, R Proksa - Medical physics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
A new approximate method for the utilization of redundant data in helical cone‐beam CT is
presented. It is based on the observation that the original WEDGE method provides …

Parallel computing techniques for computed tomography

J Deng - 2011 - search.proquest.com
X-ray computed tomography is a widely adopted medical imaging method that uses
projections to recover the internal image of a subject. Since the invention of X-ray computed …

Evaluation and empirical analysis of an exact FBP algorithm for spiral cone-beam CT

AI Katsevich, G Lauritsch, H Bruder… - Medical Imaging …, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Recently one of the authors proposed a reconstruction algorithm, which is theoretically exact
and has the truly shift-invariant filtering and backprojection structure. Each voxel is …

High-resolution images of cone beam collimated CT scans

G Shechter, T Koehler, A Altman… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel reconstruction algorithm for high-transaxial-resolution cone-beam
computed tomography (CT). Two ideas are combined to achieve this: First, the ray-offset …

A projection-driven pre-correction technique for iterative reconstruction of helical cone-beam cardiac CT images

S Do, Z Liang, WC Karl, T Brady… - Medical Imaging 2008 …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Modern CT systems have advanced at a dramatic rate. Algebraic iterative reconstruction
techniques have shown promising and desirable image characteristics, but are seldom used …

Method and apparatus for exact cone beam computed tomography

C Bontus, T Köhler - US Patent 7,548,603, 2009 - Google Patents
The invention relates to a computed tomography method in which an examination Zone is
irradiated along a helical tra jectory by a conical radiation beam. The radiation transmitted …

Motion artefact reduction for exact cone-beam CT reconstruction algorithms

P Koken, T Kohler, C Bontus… - 2003 IEEE Nuclear …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Katsevich proposed a reconstruction algorithm for helical cone-beam CT which is
theoretically exact. Even for large cone angles, it performs very well on static objects. But …

[图书][B] X-ray computed tomography image reconstruction: Energy-integrating detector and performance analysis

L Xie - 2008 - search.proquest.com
Modern CT scanners use energy-integrating detectors, but most existing reconstruction
algorithms are based on photon counting detector models. We implemented an expectation …