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- Title
Image-based dual energy CT using optimized precorrection functions: A practical new approach of material decomposition in image domain.
- Authors
Maaß, Clemens; Baer, Matthias; Kachelrieß, Marc
- Abstract
Dual energy CT (DECT) measures the object of interest using two different x-ray spectra in order to provide energy-selective CT images or in order to get the material decomposition of the object. Today, two decomposition techniques are known. Image-based DECT uses linear combinations of reconstructed images to get an image that contains material-selective DECT information. Rawdata-based DECT correctly treats the available information by passing the rawdata through a decomposition function that uses information from both rawdata sets to create DECT specific (e.g., material-selective) rawdata. Then the image reconstruction yields material-selective images. Rawdata-based image decomposition generally obtains better image quality; however, it needs matched rawdata sets. This means that physically the same lines need to be measured for each spectrum. In today’s CT scanners, this is not the case. The authors propose a new image-based method to combine mismatched rawdata sets for DECT information. The method allows for implementation in a scanner’s rawdata precorrection pipeline or may be used in image domain. They compare the ability of the three methods (image-based standard method, proposed method, and rawdata-based standard method) to perform material decomposition and to provide monochromatic images. Thereby they use typical clinical and preclinical scanner arrangements including circular cone-beam CT and spiral CT. The proposed method is found to perform better than the image-based standard method and is inferior to the rawdata-based method. However, the proposed method can be used with the frequent case of mismatched data sets that exclude rawdata-based methods.
- Subjects
X-ray spectroscopy; DATA; IMAGE quality in imaging systems; MEDICAL technology; MEDICAL physics
- Publication
Medical Physics, 2009, Vol 36, Issue 8, p3818
- ISSN
0094-2405
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1118/1.3157235