Monoenergetic computed tomography reconstructions reduce beam hardening artifacts from dental restorations

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 327-332

  Stolzmann, Paul ^a,b   Winklhofer, Sebastian ^a,b   Schwendener, Nicole ^a,c   Alkadhi, Hatem ^b   Thali, Michael J ^a   Ruder, Thomas D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artifact reduction; Dental CT; Dual energy CT; Forensic radiology; Monoenergetic CT; Post mortem CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOPSY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL SURGERY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; AUTOPSY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DENTAL RESTORATION, TEMPORARY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883826682     PISSN: 1547769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12024-013-9420-z     Document Type: Article

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