Improved scatter correction for X-ray conebeam CT using primary modulation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Zhu, Lei ^a   StarLack, Josh ^b   Robert Bennett, N ^c   Li, Tianfang ^c   Xmg, Lei ^c   Fahrig, Rebecca ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conebeam CT; Primary modulation; Scatter correction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMODULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

FOURIER DOMAIN; LINEAR FILTERING; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD; X-RAY SOURCE;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 35148898342     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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