An energy-based beam hardening model in tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4181-4190

  Van de Casteele, E ^a   Van Dyck, D ^a   Sijbers, J ^a   Raman, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; X RAYS;

MICROTOMOGRAPHS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROCOMPUTER; MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION ENERGY; THICKNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 0037038947     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/23/305     Document Type: Article

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