Beam hardening artefacts in computed tomography with photon counting, charge integrating and energy weighting detectors: A simulation study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5813-5827

  Shikhaliev, Polad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

IMAGE ACQUISITION; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON DETECTORS; PULSE HEIGHT NOISE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29144515780     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/24/004     Document Type: Article

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