Effect of phantom voxelization in CT simulations

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 492-498

  Goertzen, Andrew L ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b   Cherry, Simon R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Computed tomography; CT image quality; Phantom study; Simulation

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHANTOMS; PIXELS;

ARTIFACTS; CT IMAGE; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; GEOMETRICAL SHAPES; PHANTOM STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTION MATRIX; SIMULATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036120688     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1461841     Document Type: Article

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