Hybrid spectral micro-CT: System design, implementation, and preliminary results

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 246-253

  Bennett, James R ^a   Opie, Alex M T ^b   Xu, Qiong ^c   Yu, Hengyong ^a,d   Walsh, Michael ^e   Butler, Anthony ^e,f   Butler, Phillip ^b,f   Cao, Guohua ^a   Mohs, Aaron ^g   Wang, Ge ^h  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

^g Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

^h RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT architecture; CT instrumentation; interior tomography; micro CT; spectral CT

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; CLINICAL APPLICATION; COMPRESSIVE SENSING; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; INTERIOR TOMOGRAPHY; MICRO CT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84893299257     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2279673     Document Type: Article

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