Rayleigh scatter in kilovoltage x-ray imaging: Is the independent atom approximation good enough?

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 6931-6942

  Poludniowski, G ^a   Evans, P M ^a   Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL BONE; CT DATA; CT IMAGING; GOLD STANDARDS; INTERFERENCE FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL X-RAY IMAGING; MODELLING SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PROJECTION IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RAYLEIGH; SCATTER CORRECTION; SOFT TISSUE; X RAY BEAM; XRAY IMAGING;

ERRORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING; SIMULATORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

WATER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERFEROMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; THORAX; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 72149134644     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/22/012     Document Type: Article

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