Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulator for fan-and cone-beam X-ray CT

2010 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zou, Jing ^a   Hu, Zhanli ^a   Gui, Jianbao ^a   Rong, Junyan ^a   Li, Yanming ^a   Zheng, Hairong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Energy spectrum; X ray projection

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SIMULATIONS; BEAM-HARDENING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM CT SCANNERS; CORRECTION SCHEMES; CT SYSTEM; ENERGY SPECTRUM; GEANT4 TOOLKITS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATORS; PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING DATA; STATISTICAL SIMULATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY CT; X-RAY PROJECTIONS;

BIOINFORMATICS; SCANNING; SIMULATORS; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956162113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5514746     Document Type: Conference Paper

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