Spectral optimization for dedicated breast CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 114-124

  Weigel, Michaela ^a   Vollmar, Sabrina V ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; dose; image quality; optimization

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); HYDROXYAPATITE; IMAGE QUALITY; IODINE; MEDICAL IMAGING; METAL DRAWING; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING; TISSUE; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ADIPOSE AND GLANDULAR TISSUES; CALCIUM HYDROXYAPATITE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DESIRED IMAGE QUALITIES; DOSE; IODINE CONTRAST AGENTS; POLYCHROMATIC RADIATION; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 78650920471     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3523599     Document Type: Article

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