Compensators for dose and scatter management in cone-beam computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2691-2703

  Graham, S A ^a,b   Moseley, D J ^a,b   Siewerdsen, J H ^a,b   Jaffray, D A ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bow tie filter; Compensator; Cone beam CT; Dose; X ray scatter

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PATIENT TREATMENT; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

BOW TIE; COMPENSATOR; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; DOSE; SCATTERED X-RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; FILTER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; X RAY;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 34347396603     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2740466     Document Type: Article

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