Simulation of CT dose and contrast-to-noise as function of bowtie shape

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 403-410

  Tkaczyk, J Eric ^a   Du, Yanfeng ^a   Walter, Deborah ^a   Wu, Xiaoye ^a   Li, Jianying ^b   Toth, Thomas ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowtie; Computed Tomography; Contrast to Noise; Dose; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

BOWTIE; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE; DOSE; MONTE CARLO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUXES; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAY TUBES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042646127     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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