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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2009 Aug 18;50(9):1401–1408. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.109.064428

TABLE 1.

CT System Characteristics

Component Characteristic
Radiograph
   tube
Focal spot: water-cooled W anode, beryllium
   window, 0.4 × 0.4 mm, and 0.3-mm
   copper-added filtration
1,000 W (i.e., maximum amperage at
   80 kVp = 12.5 mA)
Detector Material: indirect detection (CsI scintillator) thin
   film transistor
Active area: 40 × 30 cm
Native pixel matrix: 2,048 × 1,536
Native pixel size: 0.194 × 0.194 mm
2 × 2 pixel binned matrix: 1,024 × 768
Frame rate: 30 frames/s at 2 × 2 binning

Data are adapted from Boone et al. (37).