Practical aspects of energy weighting in X-ray imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3191-3194

  Niederlöhner, Daniel ^a   Karg, Jürgen ^a   Giersch, Jürgen ^a   Firsching, Markus ^a   Anton, Gisela ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Energy weighting; Medical imaging; Photon counting; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAYS;

ENERGY WEIGHTING; PHOTON COUNTING; SCATTERED RADIATION; X-RAY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844445608     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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