Current status of developments and applications of micro-CT

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages 531-552

  Ritman, Erik L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ex vivo; In vivo; Mini CT; Nano CT; X ray fluorescence; X ray phase

Indexed keywords

EX-VIVO; IN VIVO; MINI-CT; NANO-CT; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; X-RAY PHASE;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; SCANNING; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION BASED SCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE BASED SCANNING; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHASE CONTRAST SCANNING; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POTASSIUM ABSORPTION EDGE SUBTRACTION SCANNING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCATTER BASED SCANNING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; RATS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 79960537304     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071910-124717     Document Type: Article

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