Computed Tomography: From Photon Statistics to Modern Cone-Beam CT

✍ Scribed by Thorsten Buzug Prof. Dr. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 525
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides an overview of X-ray technology and the historical development of modern CT systems. The main focus of the book is a detailed derivation of reconstruction algorithms in 2D and modern 3D cone-beam systems. A thorough analysis of CT artifacts and a discussion of practical issues such as dose considerations give further insight into current CT systems.

Although written mainly for graduate students of biomedical engineering, medical physics, medicine (radiology), mathematics, electrical engineering, and physics, practitioners in these fields will also benefit from this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Fundamentals of X-ray Physics....Pages 15-73
Milestones of Computed Tomography....Pages 75-99
Fundamentals of Signal Processing....Pages 101-150
Two-Dimensional Fourier-Based Reconstruction Methods....Pages 151-200
Algebraic and Statistical Reconstruction Methods....Pages 201-240
Technical Implementation....Pages 241-301
Three-Dimensional Fourier-Based Reconstruction Methods....Pages 303-401
Image Quality and Artifacts....Pages 403-469
Practical Aspects of Computed Tomography....Pages 471-484
Dose....Pages 485-502
Back Matter....Pages 503-521

✦ Subjects

Imaging / Radiology;Biomedical Engineering;Biophysics/Biomedical Physics;Diagnostic Radiology;Mathematics, general