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Beam hardening correction for image-domain material decomposition in photon-counting CT

Fan et al., 2025

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2702076483398296308
Author
Fan T
Qin W
Zhang Z
Lei X
Liu Z
Yang M
Wu Q
Chen Y
Quan G
Lai X
Publication year
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IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences

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Image-domain material decomposition is widely used due to its computational efficiency and compatibility with commonly adopted clinical spectral reconstruction platforms. However, it often suffers from beam hardening artifacts, which can degrade both image quality and …
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