Quantitative material characterization from multi-energy photon counting CT
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Quantitative material characterization from multi-energy photon counting CT.
PURPOSE To quantify the concentration of soft-tissue components of water, fat, and calcium through the decomposition of the x-ray spectral signatures in multi-energy CT images. METHODS Decomposition of dual-energy and multi-energy x-ray data into basis materials can be performed in the projection domain, image domain, or during image reconstruction. In this work, the authors present methodolo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical Physics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0094-2405
DOI: 10.1118/1.4790692