Application- and patient size-dependent optimization of x-ray spectra for CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 993-1007

  Kalender, Willi A ^a   Deak, Paul ^a   Kellermeier, Markus ^a   Van Straten, Marcel ^a,b   Vollmar, Sabrina V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast to noise ratio; Dose; Image quality; Optimization; Simulations

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CONTRAST MEDIA; HYDROXYAPATITE; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; X RAYS;

CALCIUM HYDROXYAPATITE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHIES; DOSE; MONOENERGETIC SOURCES; SIMULATIONS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

HYDROXYAPATITE; IODINE;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; THORAX; X RAY;

EID: 61349187579     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3075901     Document Type: Article

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