Photon counting X-ray CT system with a semiconductor detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3119-3123

  Kowase, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Ogawa, Koichi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

ENERGY SPECTRA; PHOTON COUNTING; X-RAY CT SCANNER; X-RAY PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 38549133836     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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