1. A method for producing an image of a subject positioned in the field of view (FOV) of a computed tomography (CT) system, the steps comprising: a) acquiring with the CT system a set of projection views of the subject positioned in the FOV; b) producing a composite image with the CT system which indicates an attenuation value at each composite image pixel of the subject positioned in the FOV; and c) reconstructing an image of the subject by: c)i) backprojecting each projection view in the set into the FOV and weighting the value backprojected into each image pixel by the attenuation value of the corresponding pixel in the composite image; and c)ii) summing the backprojected values for each image pixel to produce the image.