Radiation dose efficiency comparison between differential phase contrast CT and conventional absorption CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2473-2479

  Zambelli, Joseph ^a   Bevins, Nicholas ^a   Qi, Zhihua ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CNR; CT; Dose; Phase contrast

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVENTIONAL ABSORPTION; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST; DOSE; GRATING INTERFEROMETERS; PHASE CONTRASTS; SIMULTANEOUS RECONSTRUCTION; SQUARE-ROOT DEPENDENCE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953524810     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3425785     Document Type: Article

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