Dose reduction potential with photon counting computed tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wang, Xiaolan ^a   Zamyatin, Alexander ^a   Shi, Daxin ^a  

^a Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic noise; iterative reconstruction; low dose CT; photon counting

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SCANNERS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT SIMULATION; DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC NOISE; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW DOSE; LOW-DOSE CT; MEASURED SIGNALS; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; PULSE HEIGHT; READ-OUT CIRCUIT; SIGNAL DEGRADATION; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; X-RAY DETECTOR;

MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860364078     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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