X-ray spectra from a cerium target and their application to cone beam K-edge angiography

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Sato, Elichi ^a   Yamadera, Akira ^b   Tanaka, Etsuro ^c   Mori, Hidezo ^d   Kawai, Toshiaki ^e   Ito, Fumihito ^f   Inoue, Takashi ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a   Sato, Shigehiro ^a   Takayama, Kazuyoshi ^g   Onagawa, Jun ^h   Ido, Hideaki ^h  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^e CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^f Kanno the 2Nd Bldg   (Japan)

^g TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerium target; Characteristics x rays; K edge angiography; Quasimonochromatic x rays; X ray tube

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANODES; BERYLLIUM; CERIUM; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; IODINE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SOURCES; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

ALUMINUM FILTER; CONE BEAM K-EDGE ANGIOGRAPHY; IODINE-BASED MICROSPHERE; X-RAY SPECTRA;

X RAY TUBES;

EID: 33745588602     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2049268     Document Type: Article

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