Development and implementation of a high-performance, cardiac-gated dual-energy imaging system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Shkuma, N A ^a   Siewerdsen, J H ^a,b   Dhanantwari, A C ^b   Williams, D B ^b   Richard, S ^a   Tward, D J ^a   Paul, N S ^b   Yorkston, J ^c   Van Metter, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac gating; Dual energy imaging; Flat panel detector; Image acquisition technique; Image quality; Imaging dose; Imaging performance; Lung cancer; Optimization; Thoracic imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COMPUTER CONTROL; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL CLUTTER; CARDIAC GATING; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; FLAT-PANEL DETECTOR; IMAGE ACQUISITION TECHNIQUE; IMAGE DECOMPOSITION; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; THORACIC IMAGING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34748869212     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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