Polychromatic iterative reconstruction algorithm for direct reconstruction of density information in X-ray CT
Résumé
A method is presented to reconstruct quantitative material densities from X-ray CT data instead of reconstructing a linear attenuation coefficient in each voxel of the 3D volume. The polychromatic behavior of the complete system is included in the reconstruction method, as such calibration materials are not required and beam hardening artefacts are inherently eliminated from the reconstructed data.