Prospects for quantitative computed tomography imaging in the presence of foreign metal bodies using statistical image reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2404-2418

  Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a   Whiting, Bruce R ^b   Benac, Jasenka ^c   Murphy, Ryan J ^c   Blaine, G James ^b   O'Sullivan, Joseph A ^c   Politte, David G ^b   Snyder, Donald L ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Filtered backprojection; Metal artifact reduction; Statistical image reconstruction; X ray transmission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; METALS; X RAYS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY TRANSMISSION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALUMINUM; IRON; METAL; POLITEF; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 0036798793     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1509443     Document Type: Article

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