Image-domain material decomposition using photon-counting CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^a,d   Zhang, Mengxi ^a,b   Frey, Eric C ^a   Xu, Jingyan ^a   Segars, W Paul ^c   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JHOC 4253A ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Material decomposition; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PHOTON COUNTING; X-RAY DETECTORS;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148816698     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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