Intensity distribution and impact of scatter for dual-source CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6969-6989

  Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

CROSS-SCATTER ARTIFACTS; CROSS-SCATTER INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; FORWARD-SCATTER FRACTION; NOISE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36349008732     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/014     Document Type: Article

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