Simulated scatter performance of an inverse-geometry dedicated breast CT system

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 788-796

  Bhagtani, Reema ^a   Schmidt, Taly Gilat ^a  

^a Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON EMISSION; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; TUMORS; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAYS;

ANALYTICAL SIMULATIONS; CONE-BEAM GEOMETRIES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; HIGH-CONTRAST RESOLUTION; MAGNITUDE REDUCTION; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; TRUNCATED PROJECTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE GEOMETRY BREAST COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 61349105869     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3077165     Document Type: Article

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