The feasibility of a piecewise-linear dynamic bowtie filter

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hsieh, Scott S ^a,b   Pelc, Norbert J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic bowtie; dynamic range reduction; fluence field modulation; photon counting detector

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; HARDENING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

BOW TIE; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DOSE REDUCTION; DYNAMIC RANGE REDUCTION; FIELD MODULATION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; PIECEWISE LINEAR;

PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILTER; LINEAR SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ADULT; ALGORITHM; CHILD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CHILD; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84874775630     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4789630     Document Type: Article

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