X-ray scatter correction method for dedicated breast computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2896-2903

  Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

beam stop array; breast CT; image processing; mammography; Monte Carlo; scatter correction; x ray

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; PROCESSING; QUANTUM NOISE; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

ADIPOSE AND GLANDULAR TISSUES; BEAM STOP ARRAY; BREAST CT; IMAGE PROCESSING - METHODS; IMAGE-PROCESSING SOFTWARE; OBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; SCATTER CORRECTION; SCATTER CORRECTION METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861617076     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4711749     Document Type: Article

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