Direct comparison of a xenon and a solid-state CT detector system: measurements under working conditions

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 941-948

  Fuchs, Theobald ^a   Kachelrie, Marc ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOLID STATE DEVICES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; XENON;

SOLID STATE DETECTOR; XENON GAS IONIZATION DETECTOR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

XENON;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION;

CERAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; XENON;

EID: 0034257872     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.887841     Document Type: Article

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