Preclinical dual-energy x-ray computed tomography through differential filtration

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4681-4684

  Taschereau, R ^a   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM-HARDENING; DUAL-ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY; NEW APPROACHES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SINGLE TUBES; X-RAY BEAM FILTRATION; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGES;

OBJECT RECOGNITION; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; X RAY TUBES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649196372     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774467     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. R.E. Alvarez and A. Macovski, "Energy-selective reconstructions in x- ray computerized tomography", Phys. Med. Biol, vol.21, no. 5, pp. 733-744, September 1976.
2. A. Coleman and M. Sinclair, "A beam-hardening correction using dual energy computed tomography", Phys. Med. Biol., vol.30, no. 11. pp. 1251-1256, November 1985. (Pubitemid 16234027)
3. L. A. Feldkamp, L. C. Davis, and J. W. Kress, "Practical cone-beam algorithm", J. Opt. Soc. Am., vol.1, no. 6, pp. 612-619, June 1984. (Pubitemid 14584238)
4. W.H. Press, S.A. Tukolsky, W.T. Vellerling, and B.P. Flannery, Numerical Recipes in C, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 379-381.
5. http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Xcom/Text/XCOM.html.
6. J.F. Williamson, S. Li, S. Devic, BR. Whiting, and FA. Lerma, "On two-parameter models of photon cross sections: application to dual-energy CT imaging", Med. Phys.,\o\. 33, no. 11, pp. 4115-4119, November 2006.
7. R.L. Siddon, "Fast calculation of the exact radiological path for a three-dimensions CT array", Med. Phys., vol.12, no. 2, pp. 252-255, March 1985. (Pubitemid 15089015)
8. I.A. Cunningham and B.K. Reid, "Signal and noise in modulation transfer function determinations using the slit, wire, and edge techniques", Med. Phys., vol.19, no. 4, pp. 1037-1044, July 1992.
9. A.M. Loening and S.S. Gambhir, "AMIDE: a free software tool for multimodality medical image analysis", Molecular Imaging, vol.2, no. 3, pp. 131-137, July 2003.
10. P.E. Kinahan, A.M. Alesio, and J.A. Fessler, "Dual energy CT attenuation correction methods for quantitative assessment to cancer therapy with PET/CT imaging", Technol. Cancer Res. Treat., vol.5, no. 4, pp. 319-327, August 2006. (Pubitemid 44300247)