Modulator design for x-ray scatter correction using primary modulation: Material selection

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4029-4037

  Gao, Hewei ^a   Zhu, Lei ^b   Fahrig, Rebecca ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

beam hardening; K edge; primary modulator; scatter correction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COPPER; ERBIUM; HARDENING; MODULATION; MODULATORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TUNGSTEN; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

BEAM HARDENING; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDGE DISCONTINUITIES; EFFECTIVE TRANSMISSION; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78149487960     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3457472     Document Type: Article

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