Dose minimization for material-selective CT with energy-selective detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4447-4452

  Maaß, Nicole ^a   Sawall, Stefan ^a   Knaup, Michael ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; REDUNDANCY;

DATA REDUNDANCY; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; MINIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTON COUNTING; SELECTIVE DETECTORS; SIMULATION STUDIES; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; VARIANCE WEIGHTING;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 84858640291     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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