Evaluation of the quantitative capability of a home-made cone-beam micro computed tomography system

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 30, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 349-355

  Chueh, Ho Shiang ^a,c   Tsai, Wen Kai ^a   Fu, Hsiao Mei ^a   Chen, Jyh Cheng ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Power Company   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; MicroCT; Quantitative computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; BONE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

BEAM HARDENING; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICROCT);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MINIATURIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750958714     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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