Beam hardening correction for computed tomography images using a postreconstruction method and equivalent tissue concept

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 54-61

  Chen, Chun Yuan ^b   Chuang, Keh Shih ^b   Wu, Jay ^b   Lin, Horng Ru ^b   Li, Meng Ju ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Beam hardening; Computed tomography; Equivalent tissue; Postreconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALUMINUM; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TISSUE;

BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION; EQUIVALENT TISSUE; POSTRECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035354165     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-001-0003-2     Document Type: Article

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