Spectral Hounsfield units: A new radiological concept

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1008-1013

  Hurrell, Michael Anthony ^a,b   Butler, Anthony Philip Howard ^a,c,d   Cook, Nicholas James ^b   Butler, Philip Howard ^c,d   Ronaldson, J Paul ^a   Zainon, Rafidah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hounsfield unit; Medipix; Photon counting detector; Quantitative CT imaging; Spectral CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SPECTRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861532000     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2348-3     Document Type: Article

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