Variance reduction techniques for fast Monte Carlo CBCT scatter correction calculations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4495-4507

  Mainegra Hing, Ernesto ^a   Kawrakow, Iwan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; WATER;

EID: 78149353776     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/16/S05     Document Type: Article

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