Pre-reconstruction three-material decomposition in dual-energy CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yu, Lifeng ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Basis material decomposition; CT; Dual energy CT; Quantitative CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPOSITION; IRON; MIXTURES;

BONE MINERAL DENSITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DUAL-ENERGY CT; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; QUANTITATIVE CT; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; THREE-COMPONENT MIXTURES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749192201     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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