Microcomputed tomography with a second generation photon-counting x-ray detector - Contrast analysis and material separation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Wang, X ^a   Meier, D ^b,c,d   Oya, P ^b,c,d   Maehlum, G E ^b,c,d   Wagenaar, D J ^b,c,d   Tsui, B M W ^a   Patt, B E ^b,c,d   Frey, E C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Gamma Medica Ideas AS   (Norway)

^c Gamma Medica Ideas   (Canada)

^d Gamma Medica Ideas   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast analysis; Energy resolved photon counting; Material separation; Ring reduction

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ANALYSIS; CONTRAST MATERIAL; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ENERGY DISCRIMINATIONS; ENERGY RANGES; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; ENERGY WINDOWS; IN-VIVO; MATERIAL SEPARATION; MICRO CT; MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS; RING ARTIFACTS; SECOND GENERATION; SMALL ANIMAL; SOFT TISSUE; TARGET MATERIALS; THRESHOLD TUNING; TWO-MATERIALS; X-RAY DETECTOR;

MATERIALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; SEPARATION; TISSUE; X RAY APPARATUS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873929654     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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