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To optimize the chemistry of a contrast agent in terms of the beam hardening reduction, we performed computer simulations and generated synthetic CT images of a homogeneous cylindrical sand-pack (diameter, 28 or 56 mm porosity, 39 vol.% saturated with aqueous suspensions of heavy elements assuming the use of a polychromatic medical CT scanner. Undesirable beam hardening artifacts occur when a polychromatic X-ray source is used, which makes the quantitative analysis of CT images difficult. Iodine is commonly used as a contrast agent in nonmedical science and engineering, for example, to visualize Darcy flow in porous geological media using X-ray computed tomography (CT). Optimizing contrast agents with respect to reducing beam hardening in nonmedical X-ray computed tomography experiments. It is shown that a simple extension of this model gives a rather good description of beam hardening for x-rays traveling through water An analytical model for the average attenuation coefficient is proposed that uses a simple fit of the attenuation coefficient as a function of the photon energy as input. This approach underpins the ad hoc semianalytical expressions given in the literature.

Our results are based on a novel parametrization of the energy dependence of the attenuation coefficient that allows for closed form evaluation of certain spectral integrals. On the basis of this one-to-one relation, it is useful to define a mean attenuation coefficient and study its decrease with depth. The total energy fluence is one-to-one related to the traveled distance in case of a polychromatic beam moving through a given, inhomogeneous material. This study discusses the concept of a mean attenuation coefficient in a formal way. Polychromatic x-ray beams traveling though material are prone to beam hardening, i.e., the high energy part of the incident spectrum gets over represented when traveling farther into the material. International Nuclear Information System (INIS) The results suggest the combination of spectrum pre-filtration and a local gradient-based surface determination method are able to greatly reduce the influence of beam hardening in X-ray CT for dimensional metrology.īeam hardening: Analytical considerations of the effective attenuation coefficient of x-ray tomography Beam hardening is shown to influence internal and external dimensions in opposition, and to have a greater influence on outer dimensions compared to inner dimensions. Using a validated simulation tool, the influence of spectrum pre-filtration and beam hardening correction are evaluated for internal and external dimensional measurements. Beam hardening is a physical process that degrades the quality of CT images and has previously been suggested to influence dimensional measurements. From these cross-sectional images it is possible to evaluate internal dimensional features of a workpiece which may otherwise be inaccessible to tactile and optical instruments. X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a radiographic scanning technique for visualising cross-sectional images of an object non-destructively. Lifton, Joseph J Malcolm, Andrew A McBride, John W Network.A simulation-based study on the influence of beam hardening in X-ray computed tomography for dimensional metrology. Images adjusted by the sinogram correction are used as the input of the neural Noise, a deep convolutional neural network is complementarily used, where CT Implants, while tending to amplify special types of noise. This sinogram correction algorithm significantly reduces beam hardeningĪrtifacts caused by high-density materials such as teeth, bones, and metal To address these problems, the proposed method primarily performsĪ sinogram adjustment in the direction of enhancing data consistency,Ĭonsidering the situation according to the FOV truncation and offset detector. Compared to standard CT, theĪdditional difficulty of dental CBCT comes from the problems caused by offsetĭetector, FOV truncation, and low signal-to-noise ratio due to low X-ray

Where soft tissue details are not required. Reduction method is designed to improve the quality of maxillofacial imaging, Of dental cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT).

BEAM HARDENING ARTIFACT MEANING PDF

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