Quantitative image-based spectral reconstruction for computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4471-4485

  Heismann, B ^a,b   Balda, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Beam hardening correction; Energy calibration; Quantitative CT; Spectral weighting

Indexed keywords

HARDENING; ITERATIVE METHODS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAYS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION; ENERGY CALIBRATION; QUANTITATIVE CT; SPECTRAL WEIGHTING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

IODINE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349694122     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213534     Document Type: Article

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