The importance of spectral separation an assessment of dual-energy spectral separation for quantitative ability and dose efficiency

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 114-118

  Krauss, Bernhard ^a   Grant, Katharine L ^b   Schmidt, Bernhard T ^a,c   Flohr, Thomas G ^a,d  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT image quality; Dual energy CT; Radiation dose; Spectral CT

Indexed keywords

IODINE; WATER;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SPECTRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBE; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84925938409     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000109     Document Type: Article

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