Beam hardening correction for middle-energy industrial computerized tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2796-2807

  Gao, Hewei ^b   Zhang, Li ^a,b   Chen, Zhiqiang ^b   Xing, Yuxiang ^b   Li, Shuanglei ^b  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam hardening correction; Cupping artifacts; Industrial computerized tomography; Linearization

Indexed keywords

BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION (BHC) METHOD; CUPPING ARTIFACTS; INDUSTRIAL COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; SCALING FACTOR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEARIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750419609     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.879825     Document Type: Article

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