Data consistency condition-based beam-hardening correction

Shaojie Tang; Xuanqin Mou; Qiong Xu; Yanbo Zhang; James Bennett; Hengyong Yu

doi:10.1117/1.3599869

1 July 2011 Data consistency condition-based beam-hardening correction

Shaojie Tang, Xuanqin Mou, Qiong Xu, Yanbo Zhang, James Bennett, Hengyong Yu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 50, Issue 7, 076501 (July 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3599869

Abstract

In medical x ray computed tomography (CT) imaging devices, the x ray tube usually emits a polychromatic spectrum of photons resulting in beam-hardening artifacts in the reconstructed images. The bone-correction method has been widely adopted to compensate for beam-hardening artifacts. However, its correction performance is highly dependent on the empirical determination of a scaling factor, which is used to adjust the ratio of the reconstructed value in the bone region to the actual mass density of bone-tissue. A significant problem with bone-correction is that a large number of physical experiments are routinely required to accurately calibrate the scaling factor. In this article, an improved bone-correction method is proposed, based on the projection data consistency condition, to automatically determine the scaling factor. Extensive numerical simulations have verified the existence of an optimal scaling factor, the sensitivity of bone-correction to the scaling factor, and the efficiency of the proposed method for the beam-hardening correction.

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Shaojie Tang, Xuanqin Mou, Qiong Xu, Yanbo Zhang, James Bennett, and Hengyong Yu "Data consistency condition-based beam-hardening correction," Optical Engineering 50(7), 076501 (1 July 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3599869

Published: 1 July 2011

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