Calibration of cone beam CT using relative attenuation ratio for quantitative assessment of bone density: A small animal study

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 733-739

  Liu, Yifei ^a   Bäuerle, Tobias ^a   Pan, Leyun ^a   Dimitrakopoulou Strauss, Antonia ^a   Strauss, Ludwig G ^a   Heiss, Christian ^b   Schnettler, Reinhard ^b   Semmler, Wolfhard ^a   Cao, Liji ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Cone beam CT; Hounsfield unit; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; RELATIVE ATTENUATION RATIO;

ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACRUM;

EID: 84884910700     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-012-0803-5     Document Type: Article

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