An analytical approach to estimating the first order x-ray scatter in heterogeneous medium

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3145-3156

  Yao, Weiguang ^a,b   Leszczynski, Konrad W ^a,b,c  

^a SUDBURY REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compton scatter; Klein Nishina expression; Scatter estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; X RAYS;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; KLEIN-NISHINA EXPRESSION; KLEIN-NISHINA FORMULAS; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MEGA-VOLTAGE CONE BEAM; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KLEIN NISHINA EXPRESSION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICS;

EID: 67649574211     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3152114     Document Type: Article

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