Academic Radiology
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 701-712 , June 2006

Physical Evaluation of the Weighted Feldkamp Algorithms Applied to the 256-Detector Row CT Scanner for Volumetric Cine Imaging

  • Shinichiro Mori, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Physics and Medical Imaging, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa Inage-IW, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: S.M.
    • ,
  • Masahiro Endo, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Chisato Kondo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
    • ,
  • Shuji Tanada, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Received 6 June 2005 ,Revised 3 March 2006 ,Accepted 3 March 2006.

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PII: S1076-6332(06)00170-X

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.03.002

Academic Radiology
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 701-712 , June 2006

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