Reduction in x-ray scatter and radiation dose for volume-of-interest (VOI) cone-beam breast CT - A phantom study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6691-6709

  Lai, Chao Jen ^a   Chen, Lingyun ^a   Zhang, Huojun ^a,b   Liu, Xinming ^a   Zhong, Yuncheng ^a   Shen, Youtao ^a   Han, Tao ^a   Ge, Shuaiping ^a   Yi, Ying ^a   Wang, Tianpeng ^a   Yang, Wei T ^a   Whitman, Gary J ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE-BEAM BREAST CT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; EXPOSURE LEVEL; FIGURE OF MERIT; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; FULL-FIELD; HIGH EXPOSURES; IMAGE CONTRASTS; NOISE LEVELS; PHANTOM STUDIES; PROJECTION IMAGE; RADIATION DOSE; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCAN DATA; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; X-RAY SCATTER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

POLYCARBONATE;

ARTICLE; BREAST; COLLIMATOR; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUME OF INTEREST COLLIMATOR; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 71049168889     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/21/016     Document Type: Article

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