X射线
物理
光学
断层摄影术
材料科学
谱线
散射
作者
Tao Zhang,Zhiqiang Chen,Hao Zhou,N. Robert Bennett,Adam Wang,Hewei Gao
出处
期刊:arXiv: Medical Physics
日期:2020-12-30
被引量:1
标识
DOI:10.1088/1361-6560/abebab
摘要
X-ray scatter remains a major physics challenge in volumetric computed tomography (CT), whose physical and statistical behaviors have been commonly leveraged in order to eliminate its impact on CT image quality. In this work, we conduct an in-depth derivation of how the scatter distribution and scatter to primary ratio (SPR) will change during the spectral correction, leading to an interesting finding on the property of scatter: when applying the spectral correction before scatter is removed, the impact of SPR on a CT projection will be scaled by the first derivative of the mapping function; while the scatter distribution in the transmission domain will be scaled by the product of the first derivative of the mapping function and a natural exponential of the projection difference before and after the mapping. Such a characterization of scatter's behavior provides an analytic approach of compensating for the SPR as well as approximating the change of scatter distribution after spectral correction, even though both of them might be significantly distorted as the linearization mapping function in spectral correction could vary a lot from one detector pixel to another. We conduct an evaluation of SPR compensations on a Catphan phantom and an anthropomorphic chest phantom to validate the characteristics of scatter. In addition, this scatter property is also directly adopted into CT imaging using a spectral modulator with flying focal spot technology (SMFFS) as an example to demonstrate its potential in practical applications.
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