CBCT image quality and dose simulations for arbitrary source-detector trajectories with GATE

Congress:

EuroSafe Imaging 2020

Poster Number:

ESI-05719

Type:

EuroSafe Imaging

Keywords:

Not applicable, Dosimetric comparison, Dosimetry, Cone beam CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Interventional vascular, Interventional non-vascular, Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection

Authors:

T. Russ, A. M. Abdelrehim, D. F. Bauer, S. Hatamikia, L. R. Schad, F. Zöllner, K. Chung

DOI:

10.26044/esi2020/ESI-05719

DOI-Link:

https://dx.doi.org/10.26044/esi2020/ESI-05719

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