Potential of software-based scatter corrections in cone-beam volume CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 259-270

  Bertram, Matthias ^a   Wiegert, Jens ^a,b   Rose, Georg ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

C arm systems; Cone beam computed tomography; Image artifacts; Monte Carlo simulations; X ray scatter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING;

C-ARM SYSTEMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; X-RAY SCATTER;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844475227     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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