Relationship between x-ray illumination field size and flat field intensity and its impacts on x-ray imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5901-5909

  Dong, Xue ^a   Niu, Tianye ^a   Jia, Xun ^b   Zhu, Lei ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam CT; flat field intensity; x ray focal spot; x ray scatter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GLARE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAY TUBES;

CONE-BEAM CT; CONE-BEAM PROJECTION; DETECTOR POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; FIELD INTENSITY; FOCAL SPOT; HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNALS; MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 84867320222     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4750054     Document Type: Article

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