Photon counting spectral CT: Improved material decomposition with K-edge-filtered x-rays

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1595-1615

  Shikhaliev, Polad M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CT IMAGE; CT IMAGING; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; ENERGY RANGES; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FILTER MATERIALS; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; K-EDGE ENERGY; K-EDGE FILTERS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PHOTON COUNTING; PIXEL SIZE; QUASI-MONOENERGETIC; SELECTIVE REMOVAL; SKIN EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL NOISE; X RAY BEAM; X RAY PHOTONS; X RAY SPECTRUM;

ALUMINUM; BIOMINERALIZATION; GADOLINIUM; IODINE; MATERIALS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SEPARATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CADMIUM; CDZNTE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FILTRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CADMIUM; CONTRAST MEDIA; FILTRATION; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SEMICONDUCTORS; TELLURIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ZINC;

EID: 84858019941     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/6/1595     Document Type: Article

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