A comparison of sampling strategies for dual energy micro-CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Guo, Xiaolian ^a,b   Johnston, Samuel M ^b   Johnson, G Allan ^b   Badea, Cristian T ^b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dual energy; Micro CT; small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST AGENT; DECOMPOSITION PERFORMANCE; DUAL ENERGY; DUAL SOURCE; GEOMETRIC ALIGNMENT; GRAY SCALE; IMAGING CHAINS; INTENSITY VALUES; MICRO CT; MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; POST-SAMPLING; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SAMPLING TIME; SCANNING TECHNIQUES; SEPARATION PROBLEMS; SEQUENTIAL SCANNING; SINGLE SOURCE; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TIME-DIFFERENCES;

ANIMALS; BONE; IODINE; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING; SEPARATION; SWITCHING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860358357     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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