• Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis
  • Vol. 43, Issue 3, 774 (2023)
KONG Xia1、2, PAN Jin-xiao1、2, ZHAO Xiao-jie2, CHEN Ping2, and LI Yi-hong1
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    DOI: 10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2023)03-0774-07 Cite this Article
    KONG Xia, PAN Jin-xiao, ZHAO Xiao-jie, CHEN Ping, LI Yi-hong. Multi-Component Decomposition of 3D Block-Matched Dual-Energy CT With Interlayer Constraint[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2023, 43(3): 774 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Dual-energy CT uses two groups of attenuation information under different energy spectra to accurately segment two kinds of basis materials. In practical applications, the internal material structure of the object is complex, and the composition is diversified. It is often necessary to obtain three or more basic material images to understand its internal structure information. Conventional CT is a continuous mixed spectral beam. The projection information obtained does not match the single-energy reconstruction algorithm, and there are errors in the attenuation coefficients of each basic material in the reconstructed image. The density of materials in the industrial field is generally larger and the noise of the basic material in the reconstructed image is more serious, affecting the accuracy of each component’s characterisation, especially for the materials with similar attenuation coefficients. In order to realize dual-energy data decomposition to obtain multiple high-quality basis images, in addition to the influence of noise in the reconstructed image, the selection of the coefficient matrix in the material decomposition model is also very important. However, there is a deviation between the attenuation coefficient value in the reconstructed image and the theoretical attenuation coefficient value. In the reconstructed image, the attenuation coefficients of different materials with similar densities are similar or even equal, resulting in the wrong selection of the material triplet of the pixel to be decomposed, which reduces the accuracy of material decomposition. Therefore, it proposes a 3D block-matching multi-component decomposition method with inter-layer constraints. In the method, a multi-material decomposition model with mass volume conservation and the constraint that each pixel comprises three types of materials at most is introduced. Three-dimensional structure similarity information is added to the selection of pixel material components. Constraint solution is carried out by utilizing the three-dimensional structure information to reduce noise pollution, and an initial basis image, roughly decomposed, is obtained; Then use the three-dimensional block matching method to match the initial basis image, and classify the three-dimensional feature constraints of each basis material image. After classification, select the optimal material composition triplet containing this type of basic material to carry out a multi-material decomposition model and obtain a more accurate component characterization diagram. In two groups of experiments on pure metal phantoms and granite. Compared with the results of the existing methods, the three-dimensional block matching decomposition method under interlayer constraints is more accurate in identifying industrial materials with similar attenuation coefficients, the structure of each component characterization image is complete, the image quality is good, and the detail processing is accurate. The quantitative analysis in pure metal phantom experiments shows that the PSNR and SSIM values of the proposed method are increased by 5%~6% and 31%~35%, respectively, compared with the existing methods. The effectiveness and robustness of the algorithm are verified, and more accurate multi-component decomposition is achieved under the conventional CT system.
    KONG Xia, PAN Jin-xiao, ZHAO Xiao-jie, CHEN Ping, LI Yi-hong. Multi-Component Decomposition of 3D Block-Matched Dual-Energy CT With Interlayer Constraint[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2023, 43(3): 774
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