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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2008 Apr 18;53(10):2471–2493. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/10/002

Table 1.

Fan-beam scanning parameters

scan radius (Ro) 57 cm
scanning field-of-view radius (R) 24.5 cm
source to detector distance (D) 104 cm
anode angle (β)
x-ray tube focal spot size 0.12 cm × 0.09 cm
number of projections per turn 1160
number of detectors (2J) 672
angular detector width (Δγ) 1.354 × 10−3 radians
water attenuation (μw) 0.183 cm−1
bowtie filter attenuation (μb) 0.540 cm−1 (Aluminum)
bowtie filter thickness parameter (T) 0.5 cm