International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 87319, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/87319
Research Article

Cone-Beam Composite-Circling Scan and Exact Image Reconstruction for a Quasi-Short Object

Hengyong Yu and Ge Wang

Biomedical Imaging Division, VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Received 12 November 2007; Accepted 20 November 2007

Academic Editor: M. Jiang

Copyright © 2007 Hengyong Yu and Ge Wang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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