Frequency split metal artifact reduction (FSMAR) in computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1904-1916

  Meyer, Esther ^a   Raupach, Rainer ^b   Lell, Michael ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

metal artifact reduction; metal artifacts; metal implants

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FILLING; HIP PROSTHESES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; METAL IMPLANTS; METALS; PHANTOMS;

ACCURATE CORRECTION; CONE BEAM ARTIFACTS; FIELD OF MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861597362     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3691902     Document Type: Article

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