Investigation into the optimal linear time-invariant lag correction for radar artifact removal

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2398-2411

  Starman, Jared ^a   Star Lack, Josh ^b   Virshup, Gary ^b   Shapiro, Edward ^b   Fahrig, Rebecca ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

a Si; flat panel; lag; radar artifact; x ray detector

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; PHANTOMS; RADAR; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON DETECTORS; X RAY DETECTORS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLAT PANEL; FRAMES PER SECONDS; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; LINEAR TIME INVARIANT; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; STEP-RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

STEP RESPONSE;

EID: 79959537742     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3574873     Document Type: Article

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