High-performance dual-energy imaging with a flat-panel detector: Imaging physics from blackboard to benchtop to bedside

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Siewerdsen, J H ^a,b   Shkumat, N A ^b   Dhanantwari, A C ^a   Williams, D B ^a   Richard, S ^b   Daly, M J ^a   Paul, N S ^a   Moseley, D J ^a   Jaffray, D A ^a,b   Yorkston, J ^c   Van Metter, R ^c  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac gating; Detectability index; Dual energy imaging; Flat panel detector; Image guided interventions; Imaging task; Noise equivalent quanta; Thoracic imaging

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OXIMETERS; PATIENT MONITORING;

CARDIAC GATING; DETECTABILITY INDEX; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; FLAT-PANEL DETECTOR; IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS; IMAGING TASK; NOISE-EQUIVALENT QUANTA; THORACIC IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745349995     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.658080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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