A fast and pragmatic approach for scatter correction in flat-detector CT using elliptic modeling and iterative optimization

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-120

  Meyer, Michael ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRECTION METHOD; FIGURE OF MERITS; FLAT DETECTORS; IMAGE-BASED; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; ITERATIVE APPROACH; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; PRIORI INFORMATION; ROOT FINDING; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SIZE ESTIMATION; THORAX PHANTOM; WATER PHANTOM; Z-DIRECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SCATTERING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD; HIP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAD; HIP; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 77649228779     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/1/007     Document Type: Article

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