X-Ray CT
Hardware and Software Techniques
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Correction to: X-Ray CT
In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections have been made
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History and Present
Chapter 1 covers the history of the medical X-ray tomography from early years to the 1970s when Hounsfield first used an X-ray CT scanner on a human body. History and present of X-ray tomography for non-medica...
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3D Image Reconstruction
This chapter outlines the fundamentals of several image reconstruction approaches currently in use in X-ray tomography at synchrotron radiation facilities and at industrial X-ray CT scanners, clarifying both t...
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Applied Imaging Methods
In this chapter, we expand on the methods used in actual practice and discuss the various applied imaging techniques, including X-ray tomography, which uses phase contrast or ; fast X-ray tomography; and 3D m...
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Fundamentals of 3D Images
The objective of this chapter is to develop a deeper understanding of 3D imaging, conducting a simple examination of the images obtained to gain a general understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of t...
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Fundamentals of X-Ray Imaging
The two phenomena of X-ray absorption and phase shift are explained in details in this chapter, assuming most commonly used transmission-type X-ray imaging. These correspond to the two techniques of absorption...
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Hardware
The objective of this chapter is to assist in develo** a fundamental understanding of instrument principles, types, and assessment methods, as part of a first step in selecting the constituent devices, under...
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3D Image Processing and 3D Image Analysis
This section will provide the basic algorithms of representative filters and their effects according to the filtering objective. As filtering a 3D image is fundamentally the same process as that of a 2D image,...
