Prototype heel effect compensation filter for cone-beam CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2005, Pages

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Endo, Masahiro ^a   Nishizawa, Kanae ^a   Ohno, Mari ^a   Miyazaki, Hiroaki ^b   Tsujita, Kazuhiko ^b   Saito, Yasuo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPENSATION FILTERS; EFFECTIVE ENERGY; HEEL EFFECT; X-RAY BEAM INTENSITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILTER; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; REDUCTION; X RAY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27644525686     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/22/N02     Document Type: Article

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