Advanced material separation technique based on dual energy CT scanning

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zamyatin, Alexander A ^a   Natarajan, Anusha ^a   Zou, Yu ^a  

^a Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA   (United States)

Author keywords

2D Gaussian; Cluster analysis; Dual energy; Image processing; Material separation; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

2D GAUSSIAN; ADVANCED MATERIALS; BONE REMOVAL; CLUSTER SEPARATION; COLOR ASSIGNMENTS; COLOR MODELS; DENSITY PLOTS; DUAL ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY CT; GAUSSIAN DECOMPOSITION; IMAGE PROCESSING - METHODS; MATERIAL SEPARATION; NEW DIMENSIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; STANDARD METHOD; VECTOR PLOT; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATERIALS; PROCESSING; SCANNING; SEPARATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749112460     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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