An investigation of the potential of optical computed tomography for imaging of synchrotron-generated x-rays at high spatial resolution

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1531-1547

  Doran, Simon J ^a,b   Brochard, Thierry ^c   Adamovics, John ^d   Krstajic, Nikola ^e   Bräuer Krisch, Elke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^d RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM LINES; DEPTH OF FIELD; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; DOSE SIMULATIONS; EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITIES; EXPOSURE-TIME; FILM IMAGES; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE ARTEFACTS; MICRO BEAMS; MICROBEAM FACILITY; MICROBEAM RADIATION THERAPY; MICROSCOPY SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO; OPTICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL CT; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; PROJECTION DATA; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; SAMPLE DIAMETER; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCE; TELECENTRICITY; TRANSMISSION IMAGES; X RAY BEAM;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; FILM DOSIMETER; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNCHROTRON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FILM DOSIMETRY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 77951927946     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/5/018     Document Type: Article

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