Improvements of FDK-type helical cone-beam CT imaging

• Main Author: Liang, Hong Zhu
• Other Authors: Zhang Cishen
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Medical electronics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/14265
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis presents the author's research work on the FDK-type CT imaging algorithms for 3D cone-beam CT scanner. The modern FDK-type algorithms suffer from two main limitations of the data collection: the cone-shaped projection volume and the helical scanning pitch. Once the cone-beam angle b...