Program Information

	Imaging Scientific Session	Wednesday
	CT Image Quality	11:00AM - 12:15PM	Room: 18A

Moderator 1: Mitchell Goodsitt, Univ Michigan
Moderator 2: Lifeng Yu, Mayo Clinic

11:00 AM WE-D-18A-1

Evaluation of Three Commercial Metal Artifact Reduction Methods for CT Simulations in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning J. Huang*, J. Kerns, J. Nute, X. Liu, F. Stingo, D. Followill, D. Mirkovic, R. Howell, S. Kry

11:10 AM WE-D-18A-2

Performance Evaluation of Automatic Exposure Control (AEC) Across 12 Clinical CT Systems J. Winslow*, J. Wilson, O. Christianson, E. Samei

11:20 AM WE-D-18A-3

BEST IN PHYSICS (IMAGING) - Statistical Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) in Clinical CT Systems: Experimental Assessment of Z- and Axial Spatial Resolution K. Li*, J. Garrett, Y. Ge, G. Chen

11:30 AM WE-D-18A-4

How Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms Affect the MTFs of Variable-Contrast Targets in CT Images C. Dodge*, C. Dodge, J. Rong

11:40 AM WE-D-18A-5

Construction of Realistic Liver Phantoms From Patient Images and a Commercial 3D Printer S. Leng*, T. Vrieze, J. Kuhlmann, L. Yu, J. Matsumoto, J. Morris, C. McCollough

11:50 AM WE-D-18A-6

Estimating Local Noise Power Spectrum From a Few CT Scans r. zeng*, G. Marios, Q. Li, N. Petrick, B. Sahiner, K. Myers

12:00 PM WE-D-18A-7

Development and Evaluation of Automated Noise Measurement Technique in CT Images M. Chun*, J. Kim