Combining scatter reduction and correction to improve image quality in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5634-5644

  Jin, Jian Yue ^a   Ren, Lei ^a   Liu, Qiang ^b   Kim, Jinkoo ^a   Wen, Ning ^a   Guan, Huaiqun ^c   Movsas, Benjamin ^a   Chetty, Indrin J ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Good Samaritan Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam computed tomography (CBCT); image artifact; image quality; scatter correction

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RIGID STRUCTURES; ROTATION;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; LONGITUDINAL RESOLUTION; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149462521     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3497272     Document Type: Article

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