Low-dose cardio-respiratory phase-correlated cone-beam micro-CT of small animals

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1416-1424

  Sawall, Stefan ^a   Bergner, Frank ^a   Lapp, Robert ^b   Mronz, Markus ^b   Karolczak, Marek ^a   Hess, Andreas ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b CT Imaging GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

dose reduction; micro CT; phase correlation; small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

HEART; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMALS;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; DOSE REDUCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MICRO CT; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CORRELATION; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 79952162862     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3551993     Document Type: Article

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