Abstract
Considerable efforts have been made for visualizing 3-D structures of human organs by x-ray tomography. From the view point of the data collection time, the cone beam method with a circular source motion is promising for this purpose. However, the exact 3-D image reconstruction from the cone beam projections is a troublesome and time-consuming problem, because the solution cannot be decomposed into 2-D transaxial slices. For this difficulty, approximate reconstruction algorithms are proposed and practically used in many application areas [1,2]. Unfortunately, these algorithms suffer from the degradation of reconstructed images when the cone angle is large.
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