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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING
卷 36, 期 11, 页码 2389-2403出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2017.2746269
关键词
K-edge imaging; photon counting detector; spectral response effect; X-ray transmittance; low-rank approximation; maximum likelihood
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资金
- Siemens [JHU-2015-CT-1-01-Taguchi-C00218347, JHU-2015-CT-1xx-01-Taguchi-C00219287, JHU-2016-CT-1-01-Taguchi-C0022]
Photon counting detectors (PCDs) provide multiple energy-dependent measurements for estimating basis line-integrals. However, the measured spectrum is distorted from the spectral response effect (SRE) via charge sharing, K-fluorescence emission, and so on. Thus, in order to avoid bias and artifacts in images, the SRE needs to be compensated. For this purpose, we recently developed a computationally efficient three-step algorithm for PCD-CT without contrast agents by approximating smooth X-ray transmittance using low-order polynomial bases. It compensated the SRE by incorporating the SRE model in a linearized estimation process and achieved nearly the minimum variance and unbiased (MVU) estimator. In this paper, we extend the three-step algorithm to K-edge imaging applications by designing optimal bases using a low-rank approximation to model X-ray transmittances with arbitrary shapes (i.e., smooth without the K-edge or discontinuous with the K-edge). The bases can be used to approximate the X-ray transmittance and to linearize the PCD measurement modeling and then the three-step estimator can be derived as in the previous approach: estimating the x-ray transmittance in the first step, estimating basis line-integrals including that of the contrast agent in the second step, and correcting for a bias in the third step. We demonstrate that the proposed method is more accurate and stable than the low-order polynomial-based approaches with extensive simulation studies using gadolinium for the K-edge imaging application. We also demonstrate that the proposed method achieves nearly MVU estimator, and is more stable than the conventional maximum likelihood estimator in high attenuation cases with fewer photon counts.
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