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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med. 2013 Jan 21;29(5):500–512. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2012.12.005

Table 2.

Measured scatter-to-primary ratios (%) for the 8 cylinders investigated in this work. With 3 mm beam collimation and the 1D-ASG, only the largest Teflon and PMMA cylinders have SPR > 1%.

Material Water PMMA Teflon
Diameter (cm) 20.3 5.1 15.9 20.3 30.5 5.1 11.4 17.8
90 kVp 0.20 0.13 0.44 0.68 2.91 0.09 0.49 1.36
120 kVp 0.59 0.17 0.34 1.00 3.00 0.21 0.80 1.93
140 kVp 0.39 0.18 0.48 0.63 3.63 0.27 0.59 2.72