A solid iodinated phantom material for use in tomographic x-ray imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4409-4420

  Hill, Melissa L ^a,b   Mainprize, James G ^a   Mawdsley, Gordon E ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dual energy; Iodine; Phantoms; Quality control; Quantitative imaging

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IODINE; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DUAL ENERGY; IMAGE INTENSITY VARIATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; X-RAY ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IODINE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IODINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY;

EID: 70349684826     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213516     Document Type: Article

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