Experimentally determined spectral optimization for dedicated breast computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 646-655

  Prionas, Nicolas D ^a   Huang, Shih Ying ^a   Boone, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALCIUM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; HYDROXYAPATITE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IODINE; PHANTOMS; POLYETHYLENES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

CALCIUM HYDROXYAPATITE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FILTRATION MATERIALS; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; SPECTRAL OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM;

TISSUE;

EID: 79551666332     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3537077     Document Type: Article

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