Development and validation of a hybrid simulation technique for cone beam CT: Application to an oral imaging system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 5823-5843

  Zhang, G ^a   Pauwels, R ^a   Marshall, N ^a   Shaheen, E ^a   Nuyts, J ^a   Jacobs, R ^a   Bosmans, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR KERMA; BOW TIE; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; DETECTOR SIMULATIONS; DISCRETE ENERGIES; ENERGY MODULATION; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; HYBRID SIMULATION; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; INTENSITY PROFILES; ISOCENTERS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NOISY IMAGE; PHASE SPACES; POTENTIAL RANGE; PROJECTION IMAGE; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROTOCOLS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RICHARDSON-LUCY FITTING; SIMULATED IMAGES; WATER PHANTOM; X-RAY GENERATION;

IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH; MOUTH TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOUTH; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 80052657095     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/18/004     Document Type: Article

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