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Monte Carlo evaluation of scatter mitigation strategies in cone‐beam CT

Lazos et al., 2010

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4551420081070679338
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Lazos D
Williamson J
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Medical physics

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Purpose: To investigate the efficacy of two widely used scatter mitigation methods: antiscatter grids (ASGs) and beam modulating with bowtie filters (BTFs), in combination with subtractive scatter correction or zeroth order normalization phantom calibration, for …
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