Scatter correction for cone-beam computed tomography using moving blocker strips: A preliminary study

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5792-5800

  Wang, Jing ^a   Mao, Weihua ^a   Solberg, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; cone beam CT; imaging artifacts; moving blocker; scatter correction

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRON SOURCES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATIONS; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MOVING BLOCKER; SCATTER CONTAMINATION; SCATTER CORRECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149426489     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3495819     Document Type: Article

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