Understanding Imaging Performance (3)

7/25/02


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Understanding Imaging Performance (3)

Artefacts in CT

Artefacts: definition

Types of artefact

Artefact origins

Beam hardening

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Beam hardening: cupping artefact

Avoiding beam hardening artefacts

Beam hardening: calibration correction

Beam hardening correction software

Reduction of streaks and bands

Partial volume artefact

Partial volume artefacts

Minimizing partial volume artefacts

Photon Starvation

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Adaptive filtration

Multi-dimensional adaptive filtering

Effects of 3D filtration

Undersampling

Avoidance of undersampling artefacts

Metal artefacts

Avoidance of metal artefacts

Metal Artefact Reduction

Patient motion artefacts

Minimizing motion artefacts

Motion artefact correction

Detector sensitivity - Ring artefacts

Ring artefacts

Mechanical instability

Effects of rotor wobble

Artefacts in helical scanning

Helical artefacts (Pitch 2)

Helical artefacts - Abdomen

Helical artefacts - Head

Minimization of helical artefacts

Artefacts in helical scanning

Zebra artefact

Multislice scanner artefacts

Effect of interpolator on artefacts

Effect of pitch on artefacts

The cone beam problem

Cone beam artefact

Cone beam reconstruction

Effects of cone beam algorithm

Conclusions

Author: Nicholas Keat

Email: julia@impactscan.org

Home Page: www.impactscan.org