Modeling of polychromatic attenuation using computed tomography reconstructed images

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 631-642

  Yan, Chye Hwang ^a   Whalen, Robert T ^b   Beaupré, Gary S ^c   Yen, Shin Y ^a   Napel, Sandy ^d  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Rehabilitation RandD Center   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam hardening; CT imaging; Spectrum estimation; X ray spectrum profile

Indexed keywords

HARDENING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

BEAM HARDENING; BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION; CT IMAGING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; REGULARIZATION METHODS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SPECTRUM ESTIMATION; X RAY SPECTRUM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTRUM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0345390820     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598563     Document Type: Article

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