System and method of performing tomographic reconstruction and v

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1995-07-07

1999-12-14

Bruce, David Vernon

X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices

Specific application

Computerized tomography

378 15, 378901, A61B 603

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ABSTRACT:
Volume rendering and tomographic reconstruction center around solving two related integral equations: a volume rendering integral (a generalized Radon transform) and a filtered backprojection integral (the inverse Radon transform). Both of these equations are of the same mathematical form and can be dimensionally decomposed and approximated using Riemann sums over a series of resampled images. When viewed as a form of texture mapping and frame buffer accumulation, enormous hardware enabled performance acceleration is possible.

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