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Cone beam imaging of a section of a long object with a short detector

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Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 1997)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1230))

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Imaging a sectional region within an object with a detector just big enough to cover the sectional region-of-interest is analyzed. We show that with some suitable choice of scanning configuration and with an innovative method of data combination, all the Radon data can be obtained accurately. The algorithm is mathematically exact, and requires no iterations and no additional measurements. The method can be applied to inspect portions of large industrial objects in industrial imaging, as well as to image portions of human bodies in medical diagnosis.

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  1. Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., 755 College Road East, 08540, Princeton, NJ

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Tam, K.C. (1997). Cone beam imaging of a section of a long object with a short detector. In: Duncan, J., Gindi, G. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63046-5_54

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