X-ray multisource for medical imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Frutschy, Kris ^a   Man, Bruno De ^a   Edic, Pete ^a   Lounsberry, Brian ^b   Neculaes, Bogdan ^a   Zou, Yun ^a   Inzinna, Lou ^a   Conway, Ken ^a   Zhang, Xi ^a   Cao, Yang ^a   Gunturi, Satish ^a   Caiafa, Antonio ^a   Reynolds, Joe ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Distribted source; Multisource; X ray

Indexed keywords

ANODE TECHNOLOGY; BEAM CURRENTS; CT; DISTRIBTED SOURCE; ELECTRON BEAM FOCUSING; FOCAL SPOT; MULTISOURCE; X-RAY IMAGE; X-RAY SOURCES;

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON SOURCES; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749162168     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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