“…Nevertheless, CBCT images are susceptible to artifacts due to noise, scatter, partial volume effects, truncation artifacts, beam hardening, ring artifacts, and motion artifacts. Several algorithms have been developed to reduce noise and motion artifacts during reconstruction or to modify the x-ray spectrum (2,52–57). Respiratory motion is particularly problematic in CBCT imaging of the liver because any motion leads to strong degradation of the image quality, inducing streaking and blurring, especially when iodinated contrast material is injected.…”