Medical X-ray imaging with scattered photons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 10313, Issue , 2002, Pages 355-357

  Johns, Paul C ^a   Leclair, Robert J ^b   Wismayer, Matthew P ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COHERENT SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANALYTIC MODELING; MEDICAL X-RAY IMAGING; NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA; NUMBER OF ELECTRONS; PER UNIT VOLUME; SCATTER IMAGING; SCATTERED PHOTONS; TRANSMISSION IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860385602     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2283925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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