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Accuracy is assessed across the five inserts, and the images are analyzed for beam hardening artifacts and noise. Additionally, we assess the usefulness of object-specific scatter correction, and we assess performance over conventional data domain material decomposition and for anthropomorphic abdomen phantom imaging.\n Main results.<\/jats:italic>\n In the ACR phantom, the proposed method yielded a significant improvement in accuracy of the attenuation values, particularly at low energies (\n \n \n \n <\/jats:tex-math>\n \n \n <<\/mml:mo>\n \n \n 70<\/mml:mn>\n <\/mml:mrow>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/jats:inline-formula>\n \u2009keV), and an important reduction in beam hardening artifacts. While similarly high accuracy was achieved for water, quantitative error within the non-water inserts was lower and more uniform across the 30\u2013140\u2009keV range, especially in the more challenging off-centered positioning of the phantom. Noise showed expected parabolic behavior, but with minimum at lower keV, which may be clinically advantageous. Object-specific scatter correction was shown to prevent major artifacts. Advantages over conventional data-domain decomposition clearly appeared when only a standard phantom is available to calibrate the latter. 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