Tailoring x-ray beam energy spectrum to enhance image quality of new radiography contrast agents based on Gd or other lanthanides

Proceedings of SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4320, Issue , 2001, Pages 417-426

  Dilmanian, F Avraham ^a   Weinmann, Hanns Joachim ^b   Zhong, Zhong ^a   Bacarian, Tigran ^a   Rigon, Luigi ^c   Button, Terry M ^d   Ren, Baorui ^a,e   Wu, Xiao Ye ^a,f   Zhong, Nan ^a   Atkins, Harold L ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTEL NETWORKS   (United States)

^f Chorum Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

CT with contrast agent; Gadolinium contrast agent; Image contrast to noise ratio; Iodine contrast agent; Monochromatic x ray; Radiography with contrast agent; X ray beam filtration; X ray K edge beam filtration; X ray monochromator

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MONOCHROMATORS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

CONTRAST AGENTS; X-RAY BEAM ENERGY SPECTRUM;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042963373     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.430904     Document Type: Article

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