Beam hardening correction in CT myocardial perfusion measurement

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3031-3050

  So, Aaron ^a,b,c   Hsieh, Jiang ^d   Li, Jian Ying ^d   Lee, Ting Yim ^a,b,c  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STUDIES; BACK-PROJECTION; BEAM HARDENING; BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION; CARDIAC CT; CLINICAL STUDY; CORRECTED IMAGE; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; CT IMAGE; ERROR IMAGE; ESTIMATED ERROR; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; OPTIMAL SETTING; ORIGINAL IMAGES; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; PROJECTION DATA; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SEGMENTED IMAGES; SOFT TISSUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HARDENING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; SWINE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650739223     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/10/005     Document Type: Article

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