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A post‐reconstruction method to correct cupping artifacts in cone beam breast computed tomography

Altunbas et al., 2007

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468178454709957369
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Altunbas M
Shaw C
Chen L
Lai C
Liu X
Han T
Wang T
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Medical physics

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In cone beam breast computed tomography (CT), scattered radiation leads to nonuniform biasing of CT numbers known as a cupping artifact. Besides being visual distractions, cupping artifacts appear as background nonuniformities, which impair efficient gray scale …
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