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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2012 Apr 5;57(9):2477–2490. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/9/2477

Table 1.

Coefficients used for tri-linear scaling according to LAC = a × CT + b.

Tube potential (kVp) −1000 < CT < 0
0 < CT < 1000
1000 < CT < 30000
a (cm−1-HU) b (cm−1) a (cm−1-HU) b (cm−1) a (cm−1-HU) b (cm−1)
80 9.30e-5 0.093 3.28e-5 0.093 4.10e-6 0.122
100 9.30e-5 0.093 4.00e-5 0.093 5.00e-6 0.128
120 9.30e-5 0.093 4.71e-5 0.093 5.89e-6 0.134
140 9.30e-5 0.093 5.59e-5 0.093 6.98e-6 0.142