Material separation using dual-energy CT: current and emerging applications

M Patino, A Prochowski, MD Agrawal, FJ Simeone… - Radiographics, 2016 - pubs.rsna.org
Dual-energy (DE) computed tomography (CT) offers the opportunity to generate material-
specific images on the basis of the atomic number Z and the unique mass attenuation …

Update on multienergy CT: physics, principles, and applications

P Rajiah, A Parakh, F Kay, D Baruah… - Radiographics, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
Multienergy CT involves acquisition of two or more CT measurements with distinct energy
spectra. Using the differential attenuation of tissues and materials at different x-ray energies …

Principles and applications of multienergy CT: Report of AAPM Task Group 291

CH McCollough, K Boedeker, D Cody, X Duan… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In x‐ray computed tomography (CT), materials with different elemental compositions can
have identical CT number values, depending on the mass density of each material and the …

Opportunities for new CT contrast agents to maximize the diagnostic potential of emerging spectral CT technologies

BM Yeh, PF FitzGerald, PM Edic, JW Lambert… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
The introduction of spectral CT imaging in the form of fast clinical dual-energy CT enabled
contrast material to be differentiated from other radiodense materials, improved lesion …

Multi-material decomposition using statistical image reconstruction for spectral CT

Y Long, JA Fessler - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectral computed tomography (CT) provides information on material characterization and
quantification because of its ability to separate different basis materials. Dual-energy (DE) …

Spectral computed tomography: fundamental principles and recent developments

A So, S Nicolaou - Korean journal of radiology, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CT is a diagnostic tool with many clinical applications. The CT voxel intensity is related to the
magnitude of X-ray attenuation, which is not unique to a given material. Substances with …

Sparse-view spectral CT reconstruction using spectral patch-based low-rank penalty

K Kim, JC Ye, W Worstell, J Ouyang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectral computed tomography (CT) is a promising technique with the potential for
improving lesion detection, tissue characterization, and material decomposition. In this …

Multimaterial decomposition algorithm for the quantification of liver fat content by using fast-kilovolt-peak switching dual-energy CT: clinical evaluation

T Hyodo, N Yada, M Hori, O Maenishi, P Lamb… - Radiology, 2017 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To assess the clinical accuracy and reproducibility of liver fat quantification with the
multimaterial decomposition (MMD) algorithm, comparing the performance of MMD with that …

Regularization of nonlinear decomposition of spectral x‐ray projection images

N Ducros, JFPJ Abascal, B Sixou, S Rit… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Exploiting the x‐ray measurements obtained in different energy bins, spectral
computed tomography (CT) has the ability to recover the 3‐D description of a patient in a …

Comparison of five one-step reconstruction algorithms for spectral CT

C Mory, B Sixou, S Si-Mohamed… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last decade, dual-energy CT scanners have gone from prototypes to clinically
available machines, and spectral photon counting CT scanners are following. They require a …