Improved dual-energy material discrimination for dual-source CT by means of additional spectral filtration

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1359-1369

  Primak, A N ^a   Ramirez Giraldo, J C ^a   Liu, X ^a   Yu, L ^a   McCollough, C H ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual energy CT; dual source CT; x ray beam filtration; x ray spectra

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; HYDROXYAPATITE; IODINE; IRON; TIN;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY TUBE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DURAPATITE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE; IRON; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORAX; TIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849101176     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3083567     Document Type: Article

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