Scatter correction in cone-beam CT via a half beam blocker technique allowing simultaneous acquisition of scatter and image information

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2386-2395

  Lee, Ho ^a   Xing, Lei ^a   Lee, Rena ^b   Fahimian, Benjamin P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cone beam CT; FDK; half beam blocker; scatter correction; total variation

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD; X RAY DETECTORS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; GRADIENT DESCENT OPTIMIZATION; HALF BEAM BLOCKER; SCATTER CORRECTION; TOTAL VARIATION; TOTAL VARIATION REGULARIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861629764     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3691901     Document Type: Article

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