Evaluation of dual-energy radiography with a digital x-ray detector

Regis Guillemaud; Christine Robert-Coutant; Michel Darboux; Jean Jacques Gagelin; Jean-Marc Dinten

doi:10.1117/12.430946

28 June 2001 Evaluation of dual-energy radiography with a digital x-ray detector

Regis Guillemaud, Christine Robert-Coutant, Michel Darboux, Jean Jacques Gagelin, Jean-Marc Dinten

Proceedings Volume 4320, Medical Imaging 2001: Physics of Medical Imaging; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.430946
Event: Medical Imaging 2001, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Dual-energy imaging has been proposed as a method for producing material-specific images, thus permitting separate examination of bone and soft-tissue structures. Interesting clinical results, particularly for chest, have been presented usually for screen-film or phosphor plate detectors and with single exposure. The purpose of the paper is to investigate double exposure dual-energy with a digital X-Ray detector. The study is performed with a CCD-based large field digital X-Ray detector (Paladio detector, Apelem) installed on a remote table. Dual exposure is feasible on this detector with little registration problem because we have a very short delay (< 0.5 s) between two acquisitions. For each examination, two radiographs are acquired at two different high and low energies and with adapted X-ray tube filtrations. X-ray generator energy voltages and filtrations are optimized in order to obtain thin energy peak spectra with good spectral separation (50 keV), much better than with single exposure systems. Tissue decomposition images are estimated from both acquisitions. The decomposition process is helped by the nice spectral separation. Scatter correction, applied to the raw dual-exposure acquisitions, provides an improvement of tissue decomposition. Results are shown for a chest phantom.

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Regis Guillemaud, Christine Robert-Coutant, Michel Darboux, Jean Jacques Gagelin, and Jean-Marc Dinten "Evaluation of dual-energy radiography with a digital x-ray detector", Proc. SPIE 4320, Medical Imaging 2001: Physics of Medical Imaging, (28 June 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.430946

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