Feasibility study of three-material decomposition in dual-energy cone-beam CT imaging with deep learning

J Zhu, T Su, X Zhang, J Yang, D Mi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. In this work, a dedicated end-to-end deep convolutional neural network, named
as Triple-CBCT, is proposed to demonstrate the feasibility of reconstructing three different …

Development of an integrated C-arm interventional imaging system with a strip photon counting detector and a flat panel detector

X Ji, M Feng, K Treb, R Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern interventional x-ray systems are often equipped with flat-panel detector-based cone-
beam CT (FPD-CBCT) to provide tomographic, volumetric, and high spatial resolution …

A unified scatter rejection and correction method for cone beam computed tomography

C Altunbas, Y Park, Z Yu, A Gopal - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Scattered radiation is a major cause of image quality degradation in flat panel
detector‐based cone beam CT (CBCT). While recently introduced 2D antiscatter grids reject …

A generalizable new figure of merit for dose optimization in dual energy cone beam CT scanning protocols

C Li, L Zhou, J Deng, H Wu, R Wang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. This study proposes and evaluates a new figure of merit (FOMn) for dose
optimization of Dual-energy cone-beam CT (DE-CBCT) scanning protocols based on size …

Photon counting-energy integrating hybrid flat panel detector systems for image-guided interventions: an experimental proof-of-concept

K Treb, Y Hämisch, C Ullberg… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Current C-arm x-ray systems equipped with scintillator-based flat panel detectors
(FPDs) lack sufficient low-contrast detectability and spectral, high-resolution capabilities …

Single‐pass metal artifact reduction using a dual‐layer flat panel detector

L Shi, NR Bennett, A Shiroma, M Sun, J Zhang… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Metal artifact remains a challenge in cone‐beam CT images. Many image domain‐
based segmentation methods have been proposed for metal artifact reduction (MAR), which …

Feasibility of dual‐energy CBCT material decomposition in the human torso with 2D anti‐scatter grids and grid‐based scatter sampling

C Altunbas - Medical Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Dual‐energy (DE) imaging techniques in cone‐beam computed tomography
(CBCT) have potential clinical applications, including material quantification and improved …

Effects of x-ray scatter in quantitative dual-energy imaging using dual-layer flat panel detectors

C Zhao, SZ Liu, W Wang, M Herbst… - … 2021: Physics of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Purpose: We compare the effects of scatter on the accuracy of areal bone mineral density
(BMD) measurements obtained using two flat-panel detector (FPD) dual-energy (DE) …

Convex combination of images from dual-layer detectors for high detective quantum efficiencies

DS Kim - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: In this paper, a novel dual-layer detector is considered to acquire X-ray images of
high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as well as detective quantum efficiency (DQE) especially for …

A hybrid photon counting and flat panel detector system for periprocedural hemorrhage monitoring in the angio suite

K Treb, X Ji, M Feng, R Zhang… - Medical Imaging 2021 …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Endovascular procedures performed in the angio suite have gained considerable popularity
for treatment of ischemic stroke as well as aneurysms. However, new intracranial …