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ArticleReports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology

Synthesized effective atomic numbers for commercially available dual-energy CT.

Daisuke Kawahara, Shuichi Ozawa, Kazushi Yokomachi, Chikako Fujioka, Tomoki Kimura, Kazuo Awai, Yasushi Nagata

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Article in Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Image synthesis of effective atomic number images using a deep convolutional neural network-based generative adversarial network.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Daisuke KawaharaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Shuichi OzawaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Kazushi YokomachiRadiation Therapy Section, Division of Clinical Support, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan.
Chikako FujiokaRadiation Therapy Section, Division of Clinical Support, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan.
Tomoki KimuraDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Kazuo AwaiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Yasushi NagataDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe objective of this study was to assess synthesized effective atomic number (Z

methodsA newly developed multi energy tissue characterisation CT phantom and an acrylic phantom with various iodine concentrations of were scanned using single-source fast kilovoltage switching DECT (GE-DECT) scanner. The difference between the measured and theoretical values of Z

resultsThe average Z

conclusionsThe accuracy of the synthesized Z ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE: The accuracy and precision of the Z

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Beam-hardeningDual-energy CTEffective atomic numbers

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PMID32684854
PMCPMC7352035

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