A new method to identify and to correct circular artifacts in X-ray CT images

Physica Medica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 43-55

  Riess, Tillman ^a   Fuchs, Theobald ^a   Kalender, Willi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circular image artifacts; Computed tomography (CT); Detector channel deviations; Multi slice CT detector

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MULTI SLICE SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX; X RAY;

EID: 8444249751     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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