A novel beam hardening correction method for computed tomography

2007 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 891-895

  Baolei, Li ^a   Quanhong, Zhang ^a   Junjiang, Li ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BINARY IMAGES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; HARDENING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; SULFATE MINERALS; TECHNOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

BEAM-HARDENING CORRECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CT IMAGING; CUPPING ARTIFACTS; DE NOISING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOWER ENERGIES; MEDICAL ENGINEERING; PATH LENGTHS; PHOTOELECTRIC ABSORPTION; POLYNOMIAL FIT; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION IMAGE; X-RAY BEAMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 48149087748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2007.4381869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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