A practical cone-beam CT scatter correction method with optimized Monte Carlo simulations for image-guided radiation therapy

Y Xu, T Bai, H Yan, L Ouyang, A Pompos… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has become the standard image guidance tool for patient setup in
image-guided radiation therapy. However, due to its large illumination field, scattered …

Scatter correction method for x‐ray CT using primary modulation: phantom studies

H Gao, R Fahrig, NR Bennett, M Sun… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Scatter correction is a major challenge in x‐ray imaging using large area detectors.
Recently, the authors proposed a promising scatter correction method for x‐ray computed …

Projection correlation based view interpolation for cone beam CT: primary fluence restoration in scatter measurement with a moving beam stop array

H Yan, X Mou, S Tang, Q Xu… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Scatter correction is an open problem in x-ray cone beam (CB) CT. The measurement of
scatter intensity with a moving beam stop array (BSA) is a promising technique that offers a …

Feasibility study on many-view under-sampling technique for low-dose computed tomography

S Cho, T Lee, J Min, H Chung - Optical Engineering, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We proposed a novel scanning method for low-dose computed tomography (CT) that uses
an oscillating multi-slit collimator between the x-ray source and the patient. It can be thought …

An energy minimization method for the correction of cupping artifacts in cone‐beam CT

S Xie, W Zhuang, H Li - Journal of applied clinical medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to reduce cupping artifacts and improve quantitative accuracy
of the images in cone‐beam CT (CBCT). An energy minimization method (EMM) is proposed …

John's equation-based consistency condition and corrupted projection restoration in circular trajectory cone beam CT

J Ma, S Wu, H Qi, B Li, H Yan, L Zhou, Y Xu - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In transmitted X-ray tomography imaging, the acquired projections may be corrupted for
various reasons, such as defective detector cells and beam-stop array scatter correction …

Scatter correction for cone-beam computed tomography using self-adaptive scatter kernel superposition

SP Xie, LM Luo - Chinese Physics C, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The authors propose a combined scatter reduction and correction method to improve image
quality in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). The scatter kernel superposition (SKS) …

Scatter correction for clinical cone beam CT breast imaging based on breast phantom studies

W Cai, R Ning, D Conover - Journal of X-ray science and …, 2011 - content.iospress.com
In flat-panel detector-based cone beam CT breast imaging (CBCTBI) systems, scattering is
an important factor that degrades image quality. It is not practical to measure the scattering …

10 Image corrections for scattered radiation

C Altunbas - 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Introduction of amorphous silicon (a-Si) x-ray flat-panel detectors (FPDs) in the late 1990s
has led to a big leap in research and development of novel cone beam computed …

Scatter correction in cone-beam breast computed tomography: simulations and experiments

G Mettivier, N Lanconelli, SL Meo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) the X-ray scatter control and reduction is one
of the major challenges because CBCT is less immune to scatter than fan-beam CT. In …