Which should be the routine cross-sectional reconstruction mode in spectral CT imaging: Monochromatic or polychromatic?

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1018, 2012, Pages

  Cui, Y ^a   Gao, S Y ^a   Wang, Z L ^a   Li, X T ^a   Sun, Y S ^a   Tang, L ^a   Zhang, Xiao Peng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY CANCER HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCHROMATIC IMAGE; PANCREAS; PHYSICIAN; POLYCHROMATIC IMAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLEEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866846211     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/27844842     Document Type: Article

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