Stabilizing dual-energy x-ray computed tomography reconstructions using patch-based regularization

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/31/10/105004MaRDI QIDQ3454704zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Brian H. Tracey, Eric Miller

Publication date 26 November 2015

Published in Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6318

zbMATH Keywords

computed tomographydual-energynon-local meansregularization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55)

Abstract: Recent years have seen growing interest in exploiting dual- and multi-energy measurements in computed tomography (CT) in order to characterize material properties as well as object shape. Material characterization is performed by decomposing the scene into constitutive basis functions, such as Compton scatter and photoelectric absorption functions. While well motivated physically, the joint recovery of the spatial distribution of photoelectric and Compton properties is severely complicated by the fact that the data are several orders of magnitude more sensitive to Compton scatter coefficients than to photoelectric absorption, so small errors in Compton estimates can create large artifacts in the photoelectric estimate. To address these issues, we propose a model-based iterative approach which uses patch-based regularization terms to stabilize inversion of photoelectric coefficients, and solve the resulting problem though use of computationally attractive Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) solution techniques. Using simulations and experimental data acquired on a commercial scanner, we demonstrate that the proposed processing can lead to more stable material property estimates which should aid materials characterization in future dual- and multi-energy CT systems.

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