Investigation of X-ray fluorescence computed tomography (XFCT) and K-edge imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1620-1627

  Bazalova, Magdalena ^a   Kuang, Yu ^a   Pratx, Guillem ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; medical diagnostic imaging; molecular imaging

Indexed keywords

CIS-PLATIN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; ENERGY-RESOLVING DETECTORS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; IMAGING COMPONENTS; K-EDGE IMAGING; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; MONTE CARLO STUDY; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY TUBES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CISPLATIN; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY;

CISPLATIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864625038     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2201165     Document Type: Article

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