Suppression of metal artifacts in CT using a reconstruction procedure that combines MAP and projection completion

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 250-260

  Lemmens, Catherine ^a   Faul, David ^b   Nuyts, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction; Iterative reconstruction; Metal artifact; Projection completion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL PROSTHESES; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FILLING; HIP PROSTHESES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; METALS; RESTORATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) RECONSTRUCTION; CT IMAGES; DENTAL FILLINGS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUES; IMAGE-BASED; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM A-POSTERIORI; METAL ARTIFACT; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTIONS; METAL IMPLANTS; MULTI MODALS; PATIENT DATUM; PROJECTION COMPLETION; RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURES; STREAK ARTIFACTS;

REPAIR;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL SURGERY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MARKOV CHAINS; METALS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59449107042     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.929103     Document Type: Article

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