An evaluation of three commercially available metal artifact reduction methods for CT imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1047-1067

  Huang, Jessie Y ^a,b   Kerns, James R ^a,b   Nute, Jessica L ^a,b   Liu, Xinming ^a,b   Balter, Peter A ^a,b   Stingo, Francesco C ^a,b   Followill, David S ^a,b   Mirkovic, Dragan ^a,b   Howell, Rebecca M ^a,b   Kry, Stephen F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; dual energy CT; metal artifact reduction

Indexed keywords

DENTAL PROSTHESES; FILLING; HIP PROSTHESES; METAL IMPLANTS; METALS; PHANTOMS; RADIOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; DUAL-ENERGY CT; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; MITIGATION METHODS; MONOCHROMATIC IMAGING; SPECTRAL IMAGING; SPINAL FIXATION; STREAK ARTIFACTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

DENTAL AMALGAM; METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; INJURIES; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; SURGERY; THORACIC VERTEBRA; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DENTAL AMALGAM; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84921340776     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/3/1047     Document Type: Article

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