CT Scanner Design Considerations

These and other trade-offs have been successfully balanced by the design teams of currently certified X-ray CT explosives detection systems. The final sets of design parameters have been incorporated into CT inspection systems that are both effective and affordable. 

Kak and M. Slaney, Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging, IEEE Press, New York, NY (1987). 

Barrett and W. Swindell, Radiological Imaging, Academic Press, San Diego, CA (1981). 

Katsevich, Exact Filtered Back Projection (FPB) Algorithm for Spiral Computer Tomography, US Patent 6,574,277 (2003). 

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