A comparative study of a dual-energy-like imaging technique based on counting-integrating readout

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6416-6428

  Roessl, Ewald ^a   Herrmann, Christoph ^a   Kraft, Edgar ^b   Proksa, Roland ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; counting integrating x ray detector; dual energy imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROELECTRONICS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY APPARATUS;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 82755190967     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3651643     Document Type: Article

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