International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 242841, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/242841
Research Article

An Efficient Estimation Method for Reducing the Axial Intensity Drop in Circular Cone-Beam CT

Lei Zhu,1 Jared Starman,1,2 and Rebecca Fahrig1

1Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
2Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Received 9 April 2008; Accepted 8 August 2008

Academic Editor: Jiang Hsieh

Copyright © 2008 Lei Zhu 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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