Demonstration of dual resolution cone beam CT technique with an a-Si/a-Se flat panel detector

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Shen, Youtao ^a   Zhong, Yuncheng ^a   Chen, Lingyun ^a   Lai, Chao Jen ^a   Liu, Xinming ^a   Han, Tao ^a   Yi, Ying ^a   You, Zhicheng ^a   Ge, Shuaiping ^a   Wang, Tianpeng ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Cone beam computed tomography; Dose saving; Dual resolution; VOI mask; Volume of interest

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE SAVING; DUAL RESOLUTIONS; VOLUME-OF INTEREST;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; PARAFFINS; WIRE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84873933163     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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