Design and evaluation of a prototype volume CT scanner

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 600-608

  Popescu, Stefan ^a   Stierstorfer, Karl ^a   Flohr, Thomas ^a   Suess, Christoph ^a   Grasruck, Michael ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT scanner; Flat panel detector; Volume CT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; IMAGE QUALITY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CONTRAST RESOLUTION; CT SCANNER; FLAT PANEL DETECTOR; VOLUME CT;

SCANNING;

EID: 23844432053     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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