Exact dual energy material decomposition from inconsistent rays (MDIR)

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 691-700

  Maaß, Clemens ^a   Meyer, Esther ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

beam hardening artifacts; dual energy CT; image quality; material decomposition

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; SCANNING; X RAYS;

BEAM HARDENING; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; DUAL-ENERGY CT; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79551704514     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3533686     Document Type: Article

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