International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 174283, 17 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/174283
Research Article

A Reconstruction Approach for Imaging in 3D Cone Beam Vector Field Tomography

T. Schuster,1 D. Theis,2 and A. K. Louis2

1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Helmut Schmidt University, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg, Germany
2Department of Applied Mathematics, Saarland University, P.O. Box 15 11 50, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany

Received 4 July 2008; Accepted 15 September 2008

Academic Editor: J. C. Chen

Copyright © 2008 T. Schuster et al. 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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