A novel forward projection-based metal artifact reduction method for flat-detector computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6575-6591

  Prell, Daniel ^a   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a   Beister, Marcel ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS; CLASS MODELS; CLINICAL IMAGES; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRECTED IMAGE; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; CT-VALUE; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; FLAT DETECTORS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; IMAGE NOISE; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; METAL PARTS; METALLIC IMPLANTS; METALLIC INSERTS; NEW APPROACHES; NOVEL METHODS; RESOLUTION LOSS; SOFT TISSUE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERPOLATION; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; METALS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REPAIR; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CADAVER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70449125860     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/21/009     Document Type: Article

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