Metal artifact reduction in CBCT using forward projected reconstruction information and mutual information realignment

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 46-49

  Meilinger, M ^a,b   Schmidgunst, C ^b   Schutz O ^b   Lang, E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C arm; Computed tomography; Cone beam; Flat panel; Metal artifact

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; METALS; ROBOTIC ARMS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; CONE BEAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE (CBCT); CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLAT PANEL; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; X-RAY ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 77950876213     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03879-2_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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