A comparison of material decomposition techniques for dual-energy CT colonography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 9412, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nasirudin, Radin A ^a   Tachibana, Rie ^b   Näppi, Janne J ^b   Mei, Kai ^a   Kopp, Felix K ^a   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^b   Noël, Peter B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided design; CT colonography; Dual energy CT; Material decomposition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS; HARDENING; IODINE; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPARISON OF MATERIALS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); CT COLONOGRAPHY; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (DECT); DUAL-ENERGY CT; DUAL-ENERGY CT COLONOGRAPHY; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84943279981     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2081982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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