The feasibility of polychromatic cone-beam x-ray fluorescence computed tomography (XFCT) imaging of gold nanoparticle-loaded objects: A Monte Carlo study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3719-3730

  Jones, Bernard L ^a   Cho, Sang Hyun ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE BEAM; EN-ROUTE; ENERGY RANGES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOLD CONCENTRATION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGING; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; MCNP5 CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO STUDY; PARALLEL HOLE COLLIMATORS; PIXEL INTENSITIES; PRIMARY BEAMS; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY SOURCES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

GOLD;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

COLOR; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GOLD; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79958116321     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/12/017     Document Type: Article

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