Magnitude and effects of X-ray scatter of a cone-beam micro-CT for small animal imaging

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 569, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 245-249

  Ni, Y C ^a   Jan, M L ^a   Chen, K W ^a   Cheng, Y D ^b   Chuang, K S ^b   Fu, Y K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cone beam; Low kVp; Micro CT; Scatter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCATTERING;

ANATOMIC INFORMATION; CONE BEAM; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; PHANTOMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33751403736     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.026     Document Type: Article

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