Multiple energy computed tomography with monochromatic x rays from the NSLS
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Tennessee Univ., Memphis, TN (United States). Dept. of Biomedical Engineereing
We used monochromatic x rays from the X17 superconducting wiggler beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory, for dual-energy quantitative computed tomography (CT) of a 27 mm-diameter phantom containing solutions of different KOH concentrations in cylindrical holes of 5-mm diameter. The CT configuration was a fixed horizontal fan-shaped beam of 1.5 mm height and 30 mm width, and a subject rotating around a vertical axis. The transmitted x rays were detected by a linear-array Si(Li) detector with 120 elements of 0.25 mm width each. We used a two-crystal Bragg-Bragg fixed-exit monochromator with Si<220> crystals. Dual photon absorptiometry (DPA) CT data were taken at 20 and 38 keV. The reconstructed phantom images show the potential of the system for quantitative CT.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 10119451
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-47081; CONF-911106-77; ON: DE92007607
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference,Santa Fe, NM (United States),2-9 Nov 1991; Other Information: PBD: [1991]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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