Design of a digital beam attenuation system for computed tomography. Part II. Performance study and initial results

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

dose modulation; fluence field modulation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODULATION; PHOTONS;

DESIGN AND SIMULATION; DOSE MODULATION; DYNAMIC RANGE REDUCTION; FIELD MODULATION; PHOTON-COUNTING IMAGING; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL BEAM ATTENUATOR; ELECTRON BEAM; FLUENCE FIELD MODULATED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION FIELD; SIMULATION; THICKNESS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873598002     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4773880     Document Type: Article

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