CT calibration and dose minimization in image-based material decomposition with energy-selective detectors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 9033, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Faby, Sebastian ^a   Kuchenbecker, Stefan ^a,b   Simons, David ^a   Schlemmer, Heinz Peter ^a   Lell, Michael ^b   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dose minimization; material decomposition; multi energy; Photon counting; spectral CT

Indexed keywords

BINS; IODINE; MEDICAL IMAGING; NOISE ABATEMENT; PHOTONS;

ENERGY INFORMATION; IMAGE-BASED METHODS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; MULTI ENERGY; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; SPECTRAL OVERLAP; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84901641410     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2042877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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