First application of liquid-metal-jet sources for small-animal imaging: High-resolution CT and phase-contrast tumor demarcation

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Larsson, Daniel H ^a   Lundström, Ulf ^a   Westermark, Ulrica K ^b   Arsenian Henriksson, Marie ^b   Burvall, Anna ^a   Hertz, Hans M ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CT; liquid metal jet; mouse; small animal imaging; tumor demarcation; x ray

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SOURCES; GALLIUM ALLOYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIQUID METALS; MAMMALS; METALS; OBJECT DETECTION; TUMORS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IN-LINE PHASE CONTRAST; LIQUID-METAL JET; MOUSE; OBJECT-TO-DETECTOR DISTANCE; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TUMOR DEMARCATION;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ALLOY; GALLIUM; INDIUM; TIN; METAL;

ABDOMEN; ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PELVIS; PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REFRACTION INDEX; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANIMAL; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; METALS; MICE; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84873576570     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4788661     Document Type: Article

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