Focused beam-stop array for the measurement of scatter in megavoltage portal and cone beam CT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2452-2462

  Maltz, Jonathan S ^a   Gangadharan, Bijumon ^a   Vidal, Marie ^a   Paidi, Ajay ^a   Bose, Supratik ^a   Faddegon, Bruce A ^b   Aubin, Michele ^b   Morin, Olivier ^b   Pouliot, Jean ^b   Zheng, Zirao ^a   Svatos, Michelle M ^c   Bani Hashemi, Ali R ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS;

BEAM HARDENING; CUPPING ARTIFACTS; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; FOCUSED BEAMS; NO MORE THAN 5; PATIENT IMAGES; RADIATION SOURCE; WATER PHANTOM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

TUNGSTEN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SCATTERING; THICKNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY;

EID: 44349109569     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2924220     Document Type: Article

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