A spectral calibration technique for x-ray CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Johnston, Samuel M ^a   Badea, Cristian T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; CT; spectral; x ray

Indexed keywords

CT; LINEAR SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; PHOTON MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL; SPECTRAL CALIBRATION; SPECTRAL MODELS; SPECTRAL RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; X-RAY CT; X-RAY SOURCES;

CALIBRATION; DETECTORS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

X RAYS;

EID: 84860382310     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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