Practical considerations for intensity modulated CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Szczykutowicz, Timothy P ^a   Mistretta, Charles ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; IMCT; ring artifact; scatter correction

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION PROPERTIES; BEAM ATTENUATORS; CT; DOSE LEVELS; FLUENCES; IMCT; LOW FREQUENCY; NOISE IMAGE; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SCANNING GEOMETRY; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER RADIATION; SYSTEM GEOMETRY;

GEOMETRY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860377570     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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