Preclinical spectral computed tomography of gold nano-particles

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 648, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Roessl, Ewald ^a   Cormode, David ^b   Brendel, Bernhard ^a   Jürgen Engel, Klaus ^a   Martens, Gerhard ^a   Thran, Axel ^a   Fayad, Zahi ^b   Proksa, Roland ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gold nano particles; K edge imaging; Photon counting X ray detectors; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL TISSUES; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CANCEROUS TISSUES; CDTE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST MATERIAL; CT IMAGING; DETECTION PROCESS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; GOLD NANO-PARTICLES; HIGH SPECIFICITY; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN IMAGING; K-EDGE ENERGY; K-EDGE IMAGING; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON-COUNTING MODE; PRE-CLINICAL; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THRESHOLD LEVELS; VULNERABLE PLAQUES; X RAY PHOTONS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY DETECTIONS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DETECTORS; GOLD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IODINE; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; TISSUE; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960843860     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.11.072     Document Type: Article

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