Reference-free ground truth metric for metal artifact evaluation in CT images

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4321-4328

  Kratz, Bärbel ^a   Ens, Svitlana ^a   Müller, Jan ^a   Buzug, Thorsten M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; image quality; metal artifact evaluation; metal artifact reduction

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; METALS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA INCONSISTENCIES; DISTANCE MEASURE; GROUND TRUTH DATA; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; REGION OF INTEREST; TECHNICAL EVALUATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960230514     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3603198     Document Type: Article

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