Adaptive proton therapy

H Paganetti, P Botas, GC Sharp… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiation therapy treatments are typically planned based on a single image set, assuming
that the patient's anatomy and its position relative to the delivery system remains constant …

A general framework and review of scatter correction methods in cone beam CT. Part 2: scatter estimation approaches

EP Rührnschopf and, K Klingenbeck - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The main components of scatter correction procedures are scatter estimation and a scatter
compensation algorithm. This paper completes a previous paper where a general …

A model‐based scatter artifacts correction for cone beam CT

W Zhao, D Vernekohl, J Zhu, L Wang, L Xing - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Due to the increased axial coverage of multislice computed tomography (CT) and
the introduction of flat detectors, the size of x‐ray illumination fields has grown dramatically …

Time-of-flight computed tomography-proof of principle

J Rossignol, RM Turtos, S Gundacker… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Computed tomography has greatly improved over the last decade, especially through x-ray
dose exposure reduction while maintaining image quality. Herein, a new concept is …

A unified scatter rejection and correction method for cone beam computed tomography

C Altunbas, Y Park, Z Yu, A Gopal - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Scattered radiation is a major cause of image quality degradation in flat panel
detector‐based cone beam CT (CBCT). While recently introduced 2D antiscatter grids reject …

A post‐reconstruction method to correct cupping artifacts in cone beam breast computed tomography

MC Altunbas, CC Shaw, L Chen, C Lai, X Liu… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In cone beam breast computed tomography (CT), scattered radiation leads to nonuniform
biasing of CT numbers known as a cupping artifact. Besides being visual distractions …

Scatter correction for cone‐beam computed tomography using moving blocker strips: a preliminary study

J Wang, W Mao, T Solberg - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: One well‐recognized challenge of cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT) is
the presence of scatter contamination within the projection images. Scatter degrades the …

Patient-specific scatter correction for flat-panel detector-based cone-beam CT imaging

W Zhao, S Brunner, K Niu, S Schafer… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A patient-specific scatter correction algorithm is proposed to mitigate scatter artefacts in cone-
beam CT (CBCT). The approach belongs to the category of convolution-based methods in …

Transmission characteristics of a two dimensional antiscatter grid prototype for CBCT

C Altunbas, B Kavanagh, T Alexeev, M Miften - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim High fraction of scattered radiation in cone‐beam CT (CBCT) imaging degrades CT
number accuracy and visualization of low contrast objects. To suppress scatter in CBCT …

Evaluation of scatter rejection and correction performance of 2D antiscatter grids in cone beam computed tomography

Y Park, T Alexeev, B Miller, M Miften… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We have been investigating two‐dimensional (2D) antiscatter grids (2D ASGs) to
reduce scatter fluence and improve image quality in cone beam computed tomography …