Task based weights for spectral computed tomography

Moa Yveborg; Mats Danielsson; Hans Bornefalk

doi:10.1117/12.910098

3 March 2012 Task based weights for spectral computed tomography

Moa Yveborg, Mats Danielsson, Hans Bornefalk

Proceedings Volume 8313, Medical Imaging 2012: Physics of Medical Imaging; 831334 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910098
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In photon counting multi-bin CT, both projection based weighting and image based weighting (designed to maximize the signal-difference-to-noise ratio SDNR) in the final image, are pixel based and do not account for any spatial frequency dependency of signal and noise among the bins. The same weighting scheme will be used when imaging objects with a large fraction of high spatial frequencies and those with predominantly low spatial frequency content. Any effect on the detectability of a certain target due to correlation between detector elements and bins that might arise in pulse height discriminating systems will not be captured using such an approach. We show how to take the spatial frequency dependency of signal and noise transfer for each bin, and the spatial frequency composition of a target, into account when determining optimal task based weights for photon-counting multi-bin CT imaging using the 2D slice detectability index by applying cascaded system analysis to a spectrally resolved photon counting CT detector system with multiple bins.

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Moa Yveborg, Mats Danielsson, and Hans Bornefalk "Task based weights for spectral computed tomography", Proc. SPIE 8313, Medical Imaging 2012: Physics of Medical Imaging, 831334 (3 March 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.910098

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