Cone Beam Micro-CT System for Small Animal Imaging and Performance Evaluation
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Cone Beam Micro-CT System for Small Animal Imaging and Performance Evaluation
A prototype cone-beam micro-CT system for small animal imaging has been developed by our group recently, which consists of a microfocus X-ray source, a three-dimensional programmable stage with object holder, and a flat-panel X-ray detector. It has a large field of view (FOV), which can acquire the whole body imaging of a normal-size mouse in a single scan which usually takes about several minu...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1687-4188,1687-4196
DOI: 10.1155/2009/960573