Joint reconstruction in low dose multi-energy CT

DOI10.3934/IPI.2020028zbMATH Open1444.92061arXiv1904.05671OpenAlexW3021276114MaRDI QIDQ2188157FDOQ2188157

Alexander Meaney, S. Siltanen, J. Toivanen, Ville Kolehmainen

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Inverse Problems and Imaging (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Multi-energy CT takes advantage of the non-linearly varying attenuation properties of elemental media with respect to energy, enabling more precise material identification than single-energy CT. The increased precision comes with the cost of a higher radiation dose. A straightforward way to lower the dose is to reduce the number of projections per energy, but this makes tomographic reconstruction more ill-posed. In this paper, we propose how this problem can be overcome with a combination of a regularization method that promotes structural similarity between images at different energies and a suitably selected low-dose data acquisition protocol using non-overlapping projections. The performance of various joint regularization models is assessed with both simulated and experimental data, using the novel low-dose data acquisition protocol. Three of the models are well-established, namely the joint total variation, the linear parallel level sets and the spectral smoothness promoting regularization models. Furthermore, one new joint regularization model is introduced for multi-energy CT: a regularization based on the structure function from the structural similarity index. The findings show that joint regularization outperforms individual channel-by-channel reconstruction. Furthermore, the proposed combination of joint reconstruction and non-overlapping projection geometry enables significant reduction of radiation dose.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05671

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zbMATH Keywords

regularizationinverse problemcomputed tomographyiterative reconstructionstructural priormulti-energy CT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Numerical methods for inverse problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N21) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)

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Uses Software

• SpekCalc
• ASTRA

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