Image-based spectral distortion correction for photon-counting x-ray detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1864-1876

  Ding, Huanjun ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

material decomposition.; photon counting detector; pulse pileup; spectral CT

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ERRORS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; PROTEINS; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDES; CHARGE SHARING EFFECTS; EFFECTIVE ATTENUATION; INTERPOLATING POLYNOMIALS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; PULSE PILE-UP; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861707561     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3693056     Document Type: Article

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