An iterative dual energy CT reconstruction method for a K-edge contrast material

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Depypere, M ^a   Nuyts, J ^a   Van Gastel, N ^a   Carmeliet, G ^a   Maes, F ^a   Suetens, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; BEAM-HARDENING; BONY STRUCTURES; COMPTON; COMPTON SCATTER; COMPUTATION TIME; CONTRAST MATERIAL; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DUAL-ENERGY CT; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; ENERGY RANGES; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MICRO CT; PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; VASCULATURE;

MATERIALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOELECTRICITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955787121     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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