The effect of energy weighting on the SNR under the influence of non-ideal detectors in mammographic applications

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 569, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 260-263

  Patatoukas, G ^a   Gaitanis, A ^a,b   Kalivas, N ^c   Liaparinos, P ^a,b   Nikolopoulos, D ^b   Konstantinidis, A ^b   Kandarakis, I ^b   Cavouras, D ^b   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c GREEK ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast CT; Energy weighting; Scintillators; SNR; X ray mammography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOSPHORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY WEIGHTING; X-RAY MAMMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33751501971     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.019     Document Type: Article

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