Dual-energy imaging using a photon counting detector with electronic spectrum-splitting

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bornefalk, Hans ^a   Lundqvist, Mats ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Sectra Mamea AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

ARTIFACTS; BREAST TUMORS; DUAL ENERGY (DE); ELECTRONIC THRESHOLD;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33745423630     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.649799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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