Development of a prototype gantry system for preclinical x-ray phase-contrast computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5910-5915

  Tapfer, Arne ^a   Bech, Martin ^a   Pauwels, Bart ^b   Liu, Xuan ^b   Bruyndonckx, Peter ^b   Sasov, Alexander ^b   Kenntner, Johannes ^c   Mohr, Jürgen ^c   Walter, Marco ^d   Schulz, Joachim ^d   Pfeiffer, Franz ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SKYSCAN NV   (Belgium)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d MICROWORKS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; micro computed tomography; phase contrast; x ray imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; PHASE CONTRAST X-RAY IMAGING; PHASE CONTRASTS; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; XRAY IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80855134336     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3644844     Document Type: Article

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