Production of Thin CT Sections and Coronal and Sagittal Images by Spatial Filtering

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Abstract
A method for the production of thin axial transverse sections, coronal views, and sagittal views from overlapped thick computed tomography (CT) scans has been developed. Thin slices are produced by spatially filtering the overlapped CT data using a filter that is a combination of square waves in the spatial domain. Resolution recovery and noise properties have been examined in phantoms and patients for a selection of filter parameters. Sample results of these studies are presented. The method has been applied to data from several hundred patient studies. Several of these cases are shown to illustrate the method.