Imagine of small children prototype for photon counting tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Norrlid, Lilián Del Risco ^a   Fredenberg, Erik ^a   Hemmendorff, Magnus ^b   Jackowski, Christian ^c   Danielsson, Mats ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Universität Bern ^*  (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pediatric imaging; Photon counting; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

AIR KERMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPTH RESOLUTION; DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION; DOSE LEVELS; ELECTRONIC NOISE; ENERGY SENSITIVITY; IN-PLANE; LOW DOSE; NEW DEVICES; PEDIATRIC IMAGING; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; POST MORTEM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION-INDUCED CANCER; TOMOSYNTHESIS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

PEDIATRICS; PHOTONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749143087     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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