Metal hardware serves as a common artifact source in spine CT imaging in the form of beam-
hardening, photon starvation, and streaking. Postprocessing metal artifact reduction …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Metal-related artifacts from spine instrumentation can
obscure relevant anatomy and pathology. We evaluated the ability of CT images …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of three metal
artifact reduction methods in dual-energy CT (DECT) examinations of instrumented spines …

Background Artifacts caused by metal implants are challenging when undertaking computed
tomography (CT). Dedicated algorithms have shown promising results although with …

Three commercial metal artifact reduction methods were evaluated for use in computed
tomography (CT) imaging in the presence of clinically realistic metal implants: Philips O …

Aim To investigate the value of dedicated computed tomography (CT) iterative metal artefact
reduction (iMAR) algorithms in patients after spinal instrumentation. Materials and methods …

The projectional nature of radiogram limits its amount of information about the instrumented
spine. MRI and CT imaging can be more helpful, using cross-sectional view. However, the …

Orthopedic hardware impairs image quality in cross-sectional imaging. With an increasing
number of orthopedic implants in an aging population, the need to mitigate metal artifacts in …

It is known that metal artifacts can be reduced by modifying standard acquisition and
reconstruction, by modifying projection data and/or image data and by using virtual …

The presence of metal-artifacts in CT imaging can obscure relevant anatomy and interfere
with disease diagnosis. The cause and occurrence of metal-artifacts are primarily due to …