An object-specific and dose-sparing scatter correction approach for a dedicated cone-beam breast CT system using a parallel-hole collimator

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yang, Kai ^a   Burkett, George ^a   Boone, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam; CT; Scatter; Scatter to Primary Ratio

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM BREAST CT; CORRECTION APPROACHES; CT; CT SYSTEM; DOSE SPARING; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; SCATTER; SCATTER-CORRECTION; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO;

PHANTOMS;

EID: 84860354408     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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