Artefact origins

• Physics based

  • Beam hardening
  • Partial volume effect
  • Photon starvation
  • Undersampling

• Patient based

  • Metal
  • Patient motion

• Scanner based

  • Detector sensitivity
  • Mechanical instability

• Helical artefacts

- causes

- appearance

- avoidance

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