An empirical method for lag correction in cone-beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5187-5196

  Mail, N ^a   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

Cone beam CT; Flat panel imager; Ghosting; Image lag; Lag correction

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS;

CONE-BEAM CT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ELEKTA ONCOLOGY SYSTEMS; FLAT-PANEL IMAGERS; GHOSTING; HIGH-CONTRAST OBJECTS; IMAGE LAGS; IMAGING PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SKIN;

EID: 54949143655     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2977759     Document Type: Article

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