Physical performance evaluation of a 256-slice CT-scanner for four-dimensional imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1348-1356

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a   Endo, Masahiro ^a   Tsunoo, Takanori ^a   Kandatsu, Susumu ^a   Tanada, Shuji ^a   Aradate, Hiroshi ^b   Saito, Yasuo ^b   Miyazaki, Hiroaki ^b   Satoh, Kazumasa ^c   Matsushita, Satoshi ^c   Kusakabe, Masahiro ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; CT exposure dose; CT image quality; CT technology

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OBJECT DETECTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING;

CONE-BEAM CT; CT IMAGE; CT TECHNOLOGY; DISTORTION MEASUREMENT; EXACT RECONSTRUCTION; EXPOSURE DOSE; SLICE-SENSITIVITY PROFILES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 3042661990     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1747758     Document Type: Article

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