Efficient Monte Carlo based scatter artifact reduction in cone-beam micro-CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 817-827

  Zbijewski, Wojciech ^b   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artifact removal; Computed tomography; Cone beam; Image reconstruction; Medical imaging; Monte Carlo simulation; Scatter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR COMPENSATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTIFACT REMOVAL; CONE BEAMS; EFFICIENT SCATTER CORRECTION ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN BASIS FUNCTIONS;

PROTON BEAMS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33645286933     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.872328     Document Type: Article

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