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Beam Hardening

Beam Hardening is a phenomenon in X-ray shielding and imaging whereby the average energy of a polychromatic X-ray beam increases as it traverses matter, due to the preferential attenuation of lower-energy photons, thereby altering the beam's spectral composition.

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CT artifacts: causes and reduction techniques

F. Edward Boas, Dominik Fleischmann · Imaging in Medicine · 2012 · 817 citations

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Beam hardening in X-ray reconstructive tomography

Rodney A. Brooks, Giovanni Di Chiro · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 1976 · 593 citations

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Breaking the 10 nm barrier in hard-X-ray focusing

Hidekazu Mimura, Soichiro Handa, Takashi Kimura et al. · Nature Physics · 2009 · 548 citations · Full text

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An iterative maximum-likelihood polychromatic algorithm for CT

Bruno De Man, Johan Nuyts, Patrick Dupont et al. · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · 2001 · 426 citations · Full text

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Correction for beam hardening in computed tomography

Gábor T. Herman · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 1979 · 367 citations

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  1. FP
    Franz Pfeiffer

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    9 publications · 422 citations

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  2. JK
    Jin Keun Seo

    Yonsei University, South Korea

    7 publications · 356 citations

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  3. JL
    Joseph Lifton

    Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore

    6 publications · 190 citations

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    Xuanqin Mou

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

    6 publications · 91 citations

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  5. BD
    Bruno De Man

    GE Global Research (United States), United States

    6 publications · 1.1K citations

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    11 h-index

    31 publications

    3.8K citations

  2. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    9 h-index

    32 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Yonsei University

    Seoul, South Korea

    9 h-index

    33 publications

    1.8K citations

  4. Technical University of Munich

    Munich, Germany

    9 h-index

    57 publications

    2.7K citations

  5. Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg, Germany

    8 h-index

    22 publications

    982 citations

  6. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    8 h-index

    27 publications

    2.3K citations

  7. Siemens Healthineers (Germany)

    Forchheim, Germany

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    539 citations

  8. Xi'an Jiaotong University

    Xi'an, China

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    267 citations

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  1. Medical Physics

    68 publications · 3.6K citations

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  2. Physics in Medicine and Biology

    46 publications · 2.9K citations

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  4. Radiology

    17 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

    JCAT · 18 publications · 564 citations

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