Dual kVp material decomposition using flat-panel detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-39

  Walter, Deborah ^a   Wu, Xiaoye ^a   Du, Yanfeng ^a   Tkaczyk, Eric J ^a   Ross, William R ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography; Dual Energy; Dual kVp imaging; Flat Panel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DUAL ENERGY; DUAL KVP IMAGING; FLAT-PANELS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042576508     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.534372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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