Beam hardening artifacts in micro-computed tomography scanning can be reduced by X-ray beam filtration and the resulting images can be used to accurately …

JA Meganck, KM Kozloff, MM Thornton, SM Broski… - Bone, 2009 - Elsevier
Bone mineral density (BMD) measurements are critical in many research studies
investigating skeletal integrity. For pre-clinical research, micro-computed tomography (μCT) …

CONRAD—A software framework for cone‐beam imaging in radiology

A Maier, HG Hofmann, M Berger, P Fischer… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: In the community of x‐ray imaging, there is a multitude of tools and applications
that are used in scientific practice. Many of these tools are proprietary and can only be used …

A practical cone-beam CT scatter correction method with optimized Monte Carlo simulations for image-guided radiation therapy

Y Xu, T Bai, H Yan, L Ouyang, A Pompos… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has become the standard image guidance tool for patient setup in
image-guided radiation therapy. However, due to its large illumination field, scattered …

A hybrid metal artifact reduction algorithm for x‐ray CT

Y Zhang, H Yan, X Jia, J Yang, SB Jiang… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Presence of metal artifacts is a major reason of degradation of computed
tomography image quality and there is still no standard solution to this issue. A class of …

An attenuation field network for dedicated cone beam breast CT with short scan and offset detector geometry

Z Fu, HW Tseng, S Vedantham - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The feasibility of full-scan, offset-detector geometry cone-beam CT has been demonstrated
for several clinical applications. For full-scan acquisition with offset-detector geometry, data …

Stationary computed tomography with source and detector in linear symmetric geometry: Direct filtered backprojection reconstruction

T Zhang, Y Xing, L Zhang, X Jin, H Gao… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Inverse‐geometry computed tomography (IGCT) could have great potential in
medical applications and security inspections, and has been actively investigated in recent …

Half-scan artifact correction using generative adversarial network for dental CT

MAA Hegazy, MH Cho, SY Lee - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Half-scan image reconstruction with Parker weighting can correct motion artifacts in dental
CT images taken with a slow scan-based dental CT. Since the residual half-scan artifacts in …

A fast regularized iterative algorithm for fan-beam CT reconstruction

T Wang, H Kudo, F Yamazaki… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a fast iterative image reconstruction algorithm for normal, short-scan, and super-
short-scan fan-beam computed tomography (CT), which aims at iterative reconstruction for …

High energy x-ray Talbot-Lau interferometer employing a microarray anode-structured target source to extend the field of view

Q Lin, Z Wu, G Zan, M Huang, Z Dang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. High energy and large field of view (FOV) phase contrast imaging is crucial for
biological and even medical applications. Although some works have devoted to achieving …

Exact and approximate algorithms for helical cone-beam CT

H Kudo, T Rodet, F Noo, M Defrise - Physics in Medicine & …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper concerns image reconstruction for helical x-ray transmission tomography (CT)
with multi-row detectors. We introduce two approximate cone-beam (CB) filtered …