Dual energy CT via fast kVp switching spectrum estimation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Xu, Dan ^a   Langan, David A ^a   Wu, Xiaoye ^a   Pack, Jed D ^a   Benson, Thomas M ^a   Tkaczky, J Eric ^a   Schmitz, Andrea M ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dual energy CT; Fast kVp switching

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; JITTER; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SWITCHING;

DIGITAL ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; DUAL-ENERGY CT; FIELD OF VIEWS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; SPECTRUM ESTIMATION; TEMPORAL REGISTRATION; VIEW INTEGRATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749103331     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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