Investigation of energy weighting using an energy discriminating photon counting detector for breast CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kalluri, Kesava S ^a   Mahd, Mufeed ^b   Glick, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

breast CT; energy weighting; photon counting

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CESIUM IODIDE; HYDROXYAPATITE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICON COMPOUNDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; X RAY DETECTORS; Z TRANSFORMS;

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); ANTHROPOMORPHIC BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST CT; ENERGY WEIGHTING; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

HYDROXYAPATITE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ENERGY; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY SPECTROMETRY; CALCINOSIS; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; DEVICES;

BREAST; CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; DURAPATITE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881635533     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4813901     Document Type: Article

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