Principles of CT and CT technology

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 115-128

  Goldman, Lee W ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; CT technology; Imaging; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ALGORITHM; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CALCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUBE; X RAY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35148852590     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.107.042978     Document Type: Review

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