Photon-counting x-ray detectors for CT

M Danielsson, M Persson, M Sjölin - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The introduction of photon-counting detectors is expected to be the next major breakthrough
in clinical x-ray computed tomography (CT). During the last decade, there has been …

Systematic review on learning-based spectral CT

A Bousse, VSS Kandarpa, S Rit… - … on Radiation and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectral computed tomography (CT) has recently emerged as an advanced version of
medical CT and significantly improves conventional (single-energy) CT. Spectral CT has two …

A material decomposition method for dual‐energy CT via dual interactive Wasserstein generative adversarial networks

Z Shi, H Li, Q Cao, Z Wang, M Cheng - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Dual‐energy computed tomography (DECT) is highly promising for material
characterization and identification, whereas reconstructed material‐specific images are …

Spectral CT image-domain material decomposition via sparsity residual prior and dictionary learning

T Zhang, H Yu, Y **, S Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The spectral computed tomography (CT) system based on a photon-counting detector (PCD)
can quantitatively analyze the material composition of the inspected object by material …

Stabilizing deep tomographic reconstruction: Part A. Hybrid framework and experimental results

W Wu, D Hu, W Cong, H Shan, S Wang, C Niu, P Yan… - Patterns, 2022 - cell.com
A recent PNAS paper reveals that several popular deep reconstruction networks are
unstable. Specifically, three kinds of instabilities were reported:(1) strong image artefacts …

Quaternion-based dictionary learning and saturation-value total variation regularization for color image restoration

C Huang, MK Ng, T Wu, T Zeng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Color image restoration is a critical task in imaging sciences. Most variational methods
regard the color image as a Euclidean vector or the direct combination of three monochrome …

Image-domain material decomposition for spectral CT using a generalized dictionary learning

W Wu, P Chen, S Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The spectral computed tomography (CT) has huge advantages by providing accurate
material information. Unfortunately, due to the instability or overdetermination of the material …

[PDF][PDF] Stabilizing deep tomographic reconstruction networks

W Wu, D Hu, W Cong, H Shan, S Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - academia.edu
Tomographic image reconstruction with deep learning (DL) is an emerging field of applied
artificial intelligence, but a recent landmark study reveals that several deep reconstruction …

Improved material decomposition with a two-step regularization for spectral CT

W Wu, P Chen, VV Vardhanabhuti, W Wu, H Yu - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the advantages of spectral computed tomography (CT) is it can achieve accurate
material components using the material decomposition methods. The image-based material …

Tomographic absorption spectroscopy based on dictionary learning

C Shui, J Huang, H Liu, W Cai, ST Sanders - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Tomographic absorption spectroscopy (TAS) has an advantage over other optical imaging
methods for practical combustor diagnostics: optical access is needed in a single plane only …