Kilovoltage cone-beam CT: Comparative dose and image quality evaluations in partial and full-angle scan protocols

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3648-3659

  Kim, Sangroh ^a   Yoo, Sua ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BEAMrnc; cone beam CT; CTDI; Monte Carlo; partial angle scan; point dose method

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

BEAMRNC; CONE-BEAM CT; CTDI; PARTIAL-ANGLE SCAN; POINT DOSE METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 77954744657     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3438478     Document Type: Article

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