Multi-material decomposition of Spectral CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Mendonça, Paulo R S ^a   Bhotika, Rahul ^a   Maddah, Mahnaz ^a   Thomsen, Brian ^b   Dutta, Sandeep ^b   Licato, Paul E ^b   Joshi, Mukta C ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual energy CT; Gemstone Spectral Imaging CT; Multi material decomposition; Quanti lication of contrast concentration; Virtual nonenhanced images

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC MATERIALS; ARBITRARY NUMBER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; CONTRAST AGENT; CT IMAGE; CT VOLUME; DUAL-ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY CT; ENERGY RANGES; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; HUMAN BODIES; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; IMAGING MODALITY; LINEAR ATTENUATION; MASS ATTENUATION; MULTI MATERIALS; N-TUPLES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRE-SELECTED; SPECTRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SPECTRAL IMAGING; TISSUE PERFUSION; TISSUE TYPES; TWO-MATERIALS; VIRTUAL NONENHANCED IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; MATERIALS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84858113587     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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