Volumetric soft tissue brain imaging on xCAT, a mobile, flat-panel X-ray CT system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zbijewski, Wojciech ^a   Stayman, J Webster ^a,b  

^a Xoran Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam; Flat panel detector; Mobile; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

BRAIN IMAGING; CONE-BEAM; CT SCAN; FLAT-PANEL DETECTOR; HIGHLY-PORTABLE; INTENSIVE-CARE PATIENTS; MOBILE; NEW SYSTEM; NON-LINEAR; SOFT TISSUE; X-RAY CT; X-RAY CT SYSTEM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749188720     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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