A new method for cupping and scatter precorrection for flat detector CT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3517-3522

  Grimmer, Rainer ^a   Maaß, Clemens ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam hardening; Computed tomography (CT); Cupping; Image correction; Scatter

Indexed keywords

BEAM HARDENING; BEAM HARDENING CORRECTION; BINARY TOMOGRAPHY; BOW TIE; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT SCANNERS; CORRECTION MODELS; CT SCAN; FLAT DETECTORS; FLAT PANEL; HOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS; IMAGE CORRECTION; MEASURED DATA; NON-BINARY; PARAMETER SPACES; PREPROCESS; RATIONAL FUNCTION; SELF CALIBRATION; SIMULATED DATA; SIMULATION STUDIES; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; VOLTAGE MODULATIONS; VOLTAGE VARIATION; X-RAY CT;

CALIBRATION; DETECTORS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HARDENING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS; SCANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951157928     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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