Evaluation of the potential of phase-contrast computed tomography for improved visualization of cancerous human liver tissue

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 204-211

  Noël, Peter B ^a   Herzen, Julia ^a   Fingerle, Alexander A ^a   Willner, Marian ^a   Stockmar, Marco K ^a   Hahn, Dieter ^a   Settles, Marcus ^a   Drecoll, Enken ^a   Zanette, Irene ^a   Weitkamp, Timm ^b   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a   Pfeiffer, Franz ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer imaging; Computed tomography; Soft tissue contrast; X ray phase contrast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EX VIVO STUDY; FRANCE; GRATING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHASE CONTRAST COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION BEAM; SYNCHROTRON; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

CANCER IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTERTOMOGRAPHIE; ONKOLOGISCHE BILDGEBUNG; RÖNTGEN-PHASEN-KONTRAST; SOFT-TISSUE CONTRAST; WEICHTEILKONTRAST; X-RAY PHASE CONTRAST;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84881543890     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: 18764436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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