Energy and dose considerations for diffraction enhanced CT in small animal studies

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Connor, Dean ^a   Dilmanian, F Avraham ^a   Parham, Christopher ^b   Kao, Teresa ^a   Zhong, Zhong ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Diffraction enhanced imaging; Image contrast to noise ratio; Imaging small animals; Micro CT; X ray refraction

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE; X RAYS;

DIFFRACTION ENHANCED IMAGING; DIFFRACTION ENHANCED IMAGING (DEI); IMAGE CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIOS; X RAY REFRACTION;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 35148816254     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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