Simulations and experimental feasibility study of Fan-beam coherent scatter CT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4786, Issue , 2002, Pages 202-209

  Harding, Adrian ^a   Schlomka, Jens Peter ^a   Harding, Geoffrey ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Image reconstruction; Medical imaging; Tissue characterisation; X ray coherent scatter

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TISSUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; X RAYS;

COHERENT SCATTER COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SIMULTANEOUS ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; X-RAY COHERENT SCATTER;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036980478     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454818     Document Type: Article

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