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Original Articles

Patient-specific scatter correction in clinical cone beam computed tomography imaging made possible by the combination of Monte Carlo simulations and a ray tracing algorithm

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Pages 1477-1483 | Received 02 May 2013, Accepted 06 Jun 2013, Published online: 23 Jul 2013

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