Metal artifact suppression from reformatted projections in multislice helical CT using dual-front active contours

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5155-5164

  Li, Hua ^a   Yu, Lifeng ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Fletcher, Joel G ^a   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

boundary mapping; computed tomography (CT); dual front active contours; iterative process; metal artifacts; multislice helical CT

Indexed keywords

HIP PROSTHESES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAPPING; METAL IMPLANTS; METALS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BOUNDARY MAPPING; HELICAL CT; ITERATIVE PROCESS; METAL ARTIFACTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957699103     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3462814     Document Type: Article

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