Breast composition measurement with a cadmium-zinc-telluride based spectral computed tomography system

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1289-1297

  Ding, Huanjun ^a   Ducote, Justin L ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast imaging; CT; material decomposition; photon counting detector

Indexed keywords

ACETAL RESINS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MAMMALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; Z TRANSFORMS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; BREAST IMAGING; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDES; COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS; FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; SPECTRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BOVINAE;

EID: 84857883071     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3681273     Document Type: Article

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