A generalized simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (GSART) for dual-energy X-ray computed tomography.
J Xray Sci Technol
; 30(3): 549-566, 2022.
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| ID: mdl-35253722
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is a widely used and actively researched imaging modality that can estimate the physical properties of an object more accurately than single-energy CT (SECT). Recently, iterative reconstruction methods called one-step methods have received attention among various approaches since they can resolve the intermingled limitations of the conventional methods. However, the one-step methods typically have expensive computational costs, and their material decomposition performance is largely affected by the accuracy in the spectral coefficients estimation.OBJECTIVE:
In this study, we aim to develop an efficient one-step algorithm that can effectively decompose into the basis material maps and is less sensitive to the accuracy of the spectral coefficients.METHODS:
By use of a new loss function that employs the non-linear forward model and the weighted squared errors, we propose a one-step reconstruction algorithm named generalized simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (GSART). The proposed algorithm was compared with the image-domain material decomposition and other existing one-step reconstruction algorithm.RESULTS:
In both simulation and experimental studies, we demonstrated that the proposed algorithm effectively reduced the beam-hardening artifacts thereby increasing the accuracy in the material decomposition.CONCLUSIONS:
The proposed one-step reconstruction for material decomposition in dual-energy CT outperformed the image-domain approach and the existing one-step algorithm. We believe that the proposed method is a practically very useful addition to the material-selective image reconstruction field.
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2022
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