Design of a digital beam attenuation system for computed tomography: Part I. System design and simulation framework

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

dose modulation; dynamic bowtie; fluence field modulation

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BOW TIE; DESIGN AND SIMULATION; DESIGN MODIFICATIONS; DOSE MODULATION; FIELD MODULATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO ENHANCEMENT; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK;

LOADING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SIMULATION; STUDY DESIGN; THICKNESS; WEDGE FILTER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84873606262     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4773879     Document Type: Article

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