A novel approach for experimental measurement of scatter profile and scatter to primary ratio in 64-slice CT scanner

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 21 IFMBE, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 473-477

  Akbarzadeh, A ^a   Ay, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Ghadiri, H ^b,c   Sarkar, S ^a,b   Zaidi, H ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CT; Scatter; SPR; Tube Voltage

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PHANTOMS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SCANNING; SCATTERING; X RAY DETECTORS;

PHANTOM SIZES; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER DISTRIBUTION; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; TUBE VOLTAGES; WATER PHANTOM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78349260049     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69139-6_120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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