Eliminating beam-hardening artifacts in high-energy industrial computed tomography(ICT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5535, Issue , 2004, Pages 765-774

  Kang, Kejun ^a   Zhao, Ziran ^a   Chen, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhang, Li ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam hardening; Correction; High energy ICT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

BEAM HARDENING; CORRECTION; DUAL-ENERGY MODES; HIGH-ENERGY ICT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 15844405835     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.559289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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