Investigation of ultra low-dose scans in the context of quantum-counting clinical CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Weidinger, T ^a   Buzug, T M ^a   Flohr, T ^b   Fung, G S K ^c   Kappler, S G ^b   Stierstorfer, K ^b   Tsui, B M W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CDTE; CT; LOW DOSE; QUANTUM COUNTING

Indexed keywords

BEAM ATTENUATION; CDTE; CLINICAL CT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT; CT DETECTORS; CT IMAGE; CT SYSTEM; DETECTOR RESPONSE; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; INTEGRATING DETECTORS; LOW DOSE; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; PATIENT EXAMINATION; QUANTUM COUNTING; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SIEMENS; SIMULATION-BASED; THEORETICAL EVALUATION; X-RAY DOSE; X-RAY SOURCES; X-RAY TUBE CURRENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; DETECTORS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860358352     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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