Systematic Bias in Basis Material Decomposition Applied to Quantitative Dual-Energy X-Ray Imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 25-33

  Gingold, Eric L ^a   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

absomtiometrv. basis decomnosition. bone densitometrv. bone mineral; dual energy; quantitative imaging; x ray

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; DENSITOMETRY; ENERGY; IMAGING; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOGRAPHY; THICKNESS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; X-RAYS;

EID: 0026517504     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596889     Document Type: Article

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