Iterative correction of beam hardening artifacts in CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Van Gompel, G ^a,b   Van Slambrouck, K ^c   Defrise, M ^d   Batenburg, K J ^a,e   De Mey, J ^b   Sijbers, J ^a   Nuyts, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

beam hardening; computed tomography

Indexed keywords

HARDENING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; X RAYS;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BEAM HARDENING; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE CORRECTIONS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION IMAGE; SPECTRUM PARAMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960905321     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3577758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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