Photon counting computed tomography: Concept and initial results

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 427-436

  Shikhaliev, Polad M ^a   Xu, Tong ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Computed tomography; MCP detector; Multislit acquisition; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; BREAST IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; MICROCHANNEL PLATE DETECTOR; MULTISLIT ACQUISITION; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL DETECTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 14644437677     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1854779     Document Type: Article

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