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FBP algorithms for attenuated fan-beam projections

  • Stony Brook University
  • Viisage Technology Inc.
  • University of Utah

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Abstract

A filtered backprojection (FBP) reconstruction algorithm for attenuated fan-beam projections has been derived based on Novikov's inversion formula. The derivation uses a common transformation between parallel-beam and fan-beam coordinates. The filtering is shift-invariant. Numerical evaluation of the FBP algorithm is presented. As a special application, we also present a shift-invariant FBP algorithm for fan-beam data reconstruction with uniform attenuation compensation. Several other fan-beam data reconstruction algorithms are discussed. In the attenuation-free case, our algorithm reduces to the conventional fan-beam FBP algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1179-1192
Number of pages14
JournalInverse Problems
Volume21
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2005

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