• DocumentCode
    3463317
  • Title

    Tomography: the Cormack algorithm revisited

  • Author

    Zahrt, John D. ; Faber, V. ; Wing, G. Milton

  • Author_Institution
    Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    2-9 Nov. 1991
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. The Cormack algorithm for doing tomography is easily extended from parallel geometry to fan geometry. After a Fourier transform of the data (in rotation angle space) one is required to solve a truncated system before back Fourier transforming to object space. This is carried out by doing a Galerkin discretization and converting the system to a system of matrix equations, which are solved by singular value decomposition (SVD). All of the SVD work on all N+1 kernels, can be done once and stored. Some reconstructions derived from very noisy data have been obtained.<>
  • Keywords
    computerised tomography; image reconstruction; Cormack algorithm; Galerkin discretization; back Fourier transformation; fan geometry; kernels; matrix equations system; medical diagnostic imaging; noisy data; object space; parallel geometry; rotation angle space; singular value decomposition; Chebyshev approximation; Equations; Geometry; Kernel; Laboratories; Matrix converters; Matrix decomposition; Polynomials; Singular value decomposition; Tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Fe, NM, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0513-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.259285
  • Filename
    259285