Implementing the complete beam hardening effect of the bowtie filter versus scaling beam intensities: Effects on dosimetric applications in computed tomography

Journal of Medical Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lopez Rendon, Xochitl ^a   Zhang, Guozhi ^b   Bosmans, Hilde ^a,b   Oyen, Raymond ^a,b   Zanca, Federica ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bowtie filter; computed tomography; dose; Monte Carlo; patient size

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; BEAM SCALING APPROXIMATION; BODY MASS; BOWTIE FILTRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION BEAM; SPECTRUM; THICKNESS;

EID: 84962972365     PISSN: 23294302     EISSN: 23294310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JMI.1.3.033507     Document Type: Article

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