Reduction of beam hardening artifact in photon-counting computed tomography: Using low-energy threshold polyenergetic reconstruction

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
• ² Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29407, USA; Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA, USA.
• ³ Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29407, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29407, USA. Electronic address: Kabakus@musc.edu.