International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 427989, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/427989
Research Article

Exact Interior Reconstruction from Truncated Limited-Angle Projection Data

Yangbo Ye,1 Hengyong Yu,2 and Ge Wang2

1Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
2CT Laboratory, Biomedical Imaging Division, VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Received 6 December 2007; Accepted 24 January 2008

Academic Editor: Lizhi Sun

Copyright © 2008 Yangbo Ye 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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