1. A method for removing contrast enhanced regions from acquired dual energy contrast-enhanced CT images, the steps comprising; a) segment the acquired dual energy CT images into high and low energy contrast images and contrast compliment images; b) perform a dual energy subtraction of the high and low energy contrast images to null the signal produced by the contrast agent; c) produce a localizer mask from the dual energy subtraction image to identify pixel locations of a subject; d) multiply an acquired image by the localizer mask to produce an image of the subject; and e) combine the image of the subject with a contrast compliment image.