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Microcomputed tomography with a second generation photon-counting x-ray detector: contrast analysis and material separation

Wang et al., 2010

Document ID
11417004920878809970
Author
Wang X
Meier D
Oya P
Maehlum G
Wagenaar D
Tsui B
Patt B
Frey E
Publication year
Publication venue
Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging

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The overall aim of this work was to evaluate the potential for improving in vivo small animal microCT through the use of an energy resolved photon-counting detector. To this end, we developed and evaluated a prototype microCT system based on a second-generation …
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