The impact of dual energy CT on pseudoenhancement of kidney lesions

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Müller, Jan ^a,d   Vrtiska, Terri ^b   Schmidt, Bernhard ^c   Howe, Ben ^b   McCollough, Cynthia ^b   Buzug, Thorsten M ^a   Petersilka, Martin ^c   Eusemann, Christian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Kidney lesion; Pseudoenhancement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENT SIZES; DUAL-ENERGY CT; DUAL-ENERGY MODES; ENERGY MODES; IODINE CONCENTRATION; KIDNEY LESION; LESION DETECTION; PATIENT SIZE; PHANTOM SIZES; PSEUDOENHANCEMENT; RENAL CYSTS; SIEMENS; SMALL CONTAINERS; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARD PROCEDURES; X-RAY ENERGIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; SCANNING; TIN; TISSUE; WATER TANKS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84858140059     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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