Correlating The CT Numbers Of Body Constituents With Their Mass Densities And Calcium Concentrations

H. K. Huang; R. S. Ledley

doi:10.1117/12.965425

23 December 1976 Correlating the CT Numbers Of Body Constituents with Their Mass Densities and Calcium Concentrations

H. K. Huang, R. S. Ledley

Proceedings Volume 0096, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine V; (1976) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965425
Event: Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine V, 1976, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

The two experiments described, one in vivo and the other in vitro, correlate CT (Computerized Tomograph-ic) numbers with mass densities in a cross-sectional scan and CT numbers with the calcium concentration in bones. The in vivo experiment is based on patient scan results and theories used in computerized tomography, specifically the concept of average effective energy (AEE) and the convolution Method in picture reconstruction. The in vitro experiment is based on scans of fresh excised lumbar vertebrae and on the physical analysis (by conventional methods) of the cancellous bone from the vertebrae.

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H. K. Huang and R. S. Ledley "Correlating the CT Numbers Of Body Constituents with Their Mass Densities and Calcium Concentrations", Proc. SPIE 0096, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine V, (23 December 1976); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965425

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