Metal artifact reduction in cone beam computed tomography using forward projected reconstruction information

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 174-182

  Meilinger, Manuel ^a,b   Schmidgunst, Christian ^b   Schütz, Oliver ^b   Lang, Elmar W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C arm; Cone beam computed tomography; Flat panel; Metal artifact reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METAL ARTIFACT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; METALS;

EID: 84860389166     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: 18764436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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