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Investigation of imaging properties of novel contrast agents based on gold, silver and bismuth nanoparticles in spectral computed tomography using Monte Carlo simulation Cover

Investigation of imaging properties of novel contrast agents based on gold, silver and bismuth nanoparticles in spectral computed tomography using Monte Carlo simulation

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering
Volume 26 (2020): Issue 1 (March 2020)
By: Maryam Sadeghian,  Parisa Akhlaghi and  Asghar Mesbahi  
Open Access
|Apr 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2020-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
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Language: English
Page range: 21 - 29
Submitted on: Oct 2, 2019
Accepted on: Feb 18, 2020
Published on: Apr 3, 2020
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
spectral CT,
photon-counting detector,
contrast agent,
Monte Carlo simulation,
nanoparticles
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Biomedical engineering,
Physics,
Technical and applied physics,
Medical physics

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