MicroCT with energy-resolved photon-counting detectors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2791-2816

  Wang, X ^a   Meier, D ^b   Mikkelsen, S ^b   Maehlum, G E ^b   Wagenaar, D J ^c   Tsui, B M W ^a   Patt, B E ^c   Frey, E C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Gamma Medica Ideas AS   (Norway)

^c Gamma Medica Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION EDGES; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; CHARGE SHARING; DEGRADING FACTORS; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; ENERGY RANGES; ENERGY SPECTRA; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; FILTERING MATERIALS; FINITE ENERGY; INTEGRATING DETECTORS; MICRO CT; MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; NON-ENERGY; PHOTON COUNTING; POLYCHROMATIC SOURCE; POLYCHROMATIC X-RAYS; RADIATION SENSORS; SPECTRAL DISTORTIONS; SPECTRAL QUALITY; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; X RAY PHOTONS; X-RAY DETECTOR; XRAY IMAGING;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; SENSORS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTIFACTS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TELLURIUM; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79954581517     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/9/011     Document Type: Article

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