Optimal "image-based" weighting for energy-resolved CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3018-3027

  Schmidt, Taly Gilat ^a  

^a Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam hardening artifacts; Computed tomography; Energy weighting; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

HARDENING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTONS;

BEAM HARDENING; ENERGY WEIGHTING; ENERGY-RESOLVING DETECTORS; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; IMPROVEMENT FACTORS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SIMULATION; THORAX SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 67649610804     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3148535     Document Type: Article

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