Simplified method of scatter correction using a beam-stop-array algorithm for cone-beam computed tomography breast imaging

Optical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Cai, Weixing ^a,b   Ning, Ruola ^a   Conover, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Medical imaging; Scatter correction; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

AIR-GAPS; ANGULAR POSITIONS; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST PHANTOM; CIRCULAR ORBIT; CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; CONTRAST LOSS; CUPPING ARTIFACTS; FIELD OF VIEWS; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; RECONSTRUCTION IMAGE; ROTATIONAL AXIS; SCATTER CORRECTION; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; X-RAY EXPOSURE; X-RAY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 75749098740     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2977527     Document Type: Article

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