Dual energy CT: How well can pseudo-monochromatic imaging reduce metal artifacts?

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1023-1036

  Kuchenbecker, Stefan ^a   Faby, Sebastian ^a   Sawall, Stefan ^a   Lell, Michael ^b   Kachelrieß, Marc ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DECT; metal artifact reduction (MAR); monochromatic imaging; monoenergetic imaging

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; METALS;

ARTEFACT REDUCTION; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; DUAL-ENERGY CT; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; MONOCHROMATIC IMAGES; MONOCHROMATIC IMAGING; MONOENERGETIC IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BONE CEMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; METAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIP; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METAL ARTIFACT; METAL IMPLANT; PATIENT CODING; PSEUDO MONOCHROMATIC IMAGING; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOLOGIST; SOFT TISSUE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; METALS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84923347188     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4905106     Document Type: Article

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