Current status and new horizons in Monte Carlo simulation of X-ray CT scanners

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 809-817

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   Ay, Mohammad Reza ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computational models; Detector; Monte Carlo simulations; Scatter; X ray computed tomography (CT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRID COMPUTING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADIOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL ANTHROPOMORPHIC MODELS; X-RAY PHOTONS GENERATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PROCESS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548691042     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0207-9     Document Type: Review

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