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Table 6 Values of maximum, minimum, metal-free region TV, and NPE in reconstructions of bag #5 (New threshold value to segment the metal image and new β1 = 0.0002)

From: A projection-domain iterative algorithm for metal artifact reduction by minimizing the total-variation norm and the negative-pixel energy

Iterations

β1

β2

Min

Max

TV

NPE

0, raw FBP

NA

NA

−0.0347

0.4676

472.6624

0.3366

1000

0.0002

0

−0.0342

0.5251

165.2475

0.0190

1000

0

5

−0.0030

0.5243

180.0589

0.00015141

1000

0.0002

5

−0.0031

0.5252

144.7916

0.0011