Demonstration of beam hardening correction in computed tomography of the head.
The efficacy of a method of removing artifacts due to beam hardening in computed tomography of the human head is demonstrated on a realistic, mathematically described phantom. An efficient implementation is discussed.
D006257:Head / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D008954:Models, Biological; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*