Cone-Beam Spiral CT

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Table of Contents

Cone-Beam Spiral CT

Cone-Beam Geometry

Sufficient Condition: 2D

Sufficient Condition: 3D

From Cone-Beam to Radon Data

Exact Cone-Beam CT

Spiral Scanning of a Long Object

AMIL Cone-Beam Spiral ?CT System

Problem with Cone-Beam Spiral CT

Tam-Danielsson Detection Geometry

Extended Grangeat Formula

Exact Spiral Cone-Beam CT

Why Approximate Reconstruction?

Cone-Beam to Fan-Beam Data

Features of Feldkamp-Type CT

Derivative-Free Fan-Beam Formula

Generalized Feldkamp Algorithm

Equiangular Formulation

Prototype of the Approximate Approach

3D Shepp and Logan Phantom

Double Planar Scanning

Helical Scanning

Approximate vs Exact Reconstruction

Real Projections

Real Reconstruction of Feldkamp-Type

Exactness in Approximation

Exact Stereo-gram Synthesis

Completeness Condition: Revisited

Approximate to Exact Reconstruction

Conclusion

References

Acknowledgments

Author: Ge Wang, PhD

Email: ge-wang@uiowa.edu

Home Page: http://dolphin.radiology.uiowa.edu/ge