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. 2011 Apr 6;12(3):80–89. doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v12i3.3432

Table 1.

Relative change of (μ/μwat) ratios for different rED tissue substitutes in three geometrical setups at three kVp X‐ray tube settings as estimated from the sampled HU values given in Fig. 4.

Setup 1 Setup 2 Setup 3
rED 80 kVp 120 kVp 140 kVp 80 kVp 120 kVp 140 kVp 80 kVp 140 kVp
0.28 5.7% 0.4% 0.9% 6.5% 1.5% 0.8% 2.5% 0.7%
0.40 1.7%
1.8%
1.8%
1.1%
1.2%
2.3%
3.6%
0.6%
0.90
2.6%
0.2%
0.4%
2.3%
0.6%
0.2%
1.7%
0.7%
0.96
3.2%
1.2%
0.4%
1.4%
0.5%
0.0%
1.6%
0.3%
0.99
0.5%
0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
0.3%
0.3%
0.2% 0.1%
1.00
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
0.3%
0.1% 0.0%
1.05
2.2%
0.3%
0.7%
1.5%
0.2% 1.0%
1.7%
0.5%
1.07 1.0% 0.5% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
1.11 6.7% 0.2%
1.8%
7.0% 0.1%
1.6%
6.5%
1.7%
1.28 8.4% 0.1%
2.2%
7.6% 0.0%
2.1%
7.3%
2.2%
1.47 13.8% 0.4%
3.3%
12.0% 0.2%
3.5%
11.7%
3.4%
1.69 17.3% 0.7%
3.5%
14.5%
0.4%
4.8%
17.2%
5.1%