Investigation of the use of photon counting X-ray detectors with energy discrimination capability for material decomposition in micro-computed tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Frey, E C ^a   Wang, X ^a   Du, Y ^a   Taguchi, K ^a   Xu, J ^a   Tsui, B M W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; LASER BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ENERGY RESOLUTION; ENERGY WINDOWS; MULTI-WINDOW ACQUISITION; STANDARD DEVIATIONS';

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148835355     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.711711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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