A Framework for Spectral Artifact Corrections in X-Ray CT

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-28, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 128-141

  Stonestrom, J Peter ^a   Alvarez, Robert E ^a,b   Macovski, Albert ^b  

^a VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROMETRY;

TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

IMAGE PROCESSING - ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY - X-RAY;

SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS; TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0019394029     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1981.324786     Document Type: Article

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