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Contrast agent imaging using an optimized table-top x-ray fluorescence and photon-counting computed tomography imaging system

Dunning, 2020

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Dunning C
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Contrast agents are often crucial in medical imaging for disease diagnosis. Novel contrast agents, such as gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and lanthanides, are being ex-plored for a variety of clinical applications. Preclinical testing of these contrast agents is necessary …
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