Reducing metal artifacts in computed tomography caused by hip endoprostheses using a physics-based approach

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 747-754

  Prell, Daniel ^a   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a   Kachelrie, Marc ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; POLYETHYLENE; TITANIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HIP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANT; METAL IMPLANTATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFT TISSUE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 77958483245     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181e94384     Document Type: Article

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