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While this mitigates energy-dependent distortions such as beam hardening, metal artifacts due to photon starvation effects are still present, especially for low-energy channels where the attenuation coefficients are higher. We present a correction method for metal artifact reduction in SCT that is based on spectral deep learning. The correction efficiently reduces streaking artifacts in all the energy channels measured. We show that the additional information in the energy domain provides relevance for restoring the quality of low-energy reconstruction affected by metal artifacts. 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