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Dual-energy CT (DECT) has been increasingly used in imaging applications because of its capability for material differentiation. However, material decomposition suffers from magnified noise from two CT images of independent scans, leading…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Wenkun Zhang , Hanming Zhang , Linyuan Wang , Xiaohui Wang , Ailong Cai , Lei Li , Tianye Niu , Bin Yan

Dual-energy subtraction imaging (DES) is a method to improve the detectability of contrast agents over a lumpy background. Two images, acquired at x-ray energies above and below an absorption edge of the agent material, are logarithmically…

Background: Dual-energy CT (DECT) and material decomposition play vital roles in quantitative medical imaging. However, the decomposition process may suffer from significant noise amplification, leading to severely degraded image…

High energy dual-energy X-ray Digital Radiography(DR) imaging is mainly used in material recognition of the cargo inspection. We introduce the development history and the principle of the technology and describe the data process flow of our…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-01 Zhi-qiang Chen , Tiao Zhao , Liang Li

The properties of semiconductors and functional dielectrics are defined by their response in electric fields, which may be perturbed by defects and the strain they generate. In this work, we demonstrate how diffraction-based X-ray…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-12 Trygve Magnus Ræder , Urko Petralanda , Thomas Olsen , Hugh Simons

We reported the usage of grating-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging in nondestructive testing of grating imperfections. It was found that electroplating flaws could be easily detected by conventional absorption signal, and in particular, we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-27 Shenghao Wang , Can Zhang

Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) imaging plays an important role in advanced imaging applications due to its material decomposition capability. Image-domain decomposition operates directly on CT images using linear matrix inversion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Zhipeng Li , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

X-ray spectroscopy is one of the most powerful tools to access structure and properties of matter in different states of aggregation as it allows to trace atomic and molecular energy levels in course of various physical and chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Sergey I. Bokarev , Oliver Kühn

Directional dark-field imaging is an emerging x-ray modality that is sensitive to unresolved anisotropic scattering from sub-pixel sample microstructures. A single-grid imaging set-up can be used to capture dark-field images by looking at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Michelle K Croughan , Ying Ying How , Allan Pennings , Kaye S Morgan

Dual energy CT (DECT) enhances tissue characterization because it can produce images of basis materials such as soft-tissue and bone. DECT is of great interest in applications to medical imaging, security inspection and nondestructive…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Qiaoqiao Ding , Tianye Niu , Xiaoqun Zhang , Yong Long

Inferior soft-tissue contrast resolution is a major limitation of current CT scanners. The aim of the study is to improve the contrast resolution of CT scanners using dual-energy acquisition. Based on dual-energy material decomposition, the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wei Zhao , Lu Wan , Bo Zhang , Qiude Zhang , Tianye Niu

X-ray imaging allows for a non-invasive image of the internal structure of an object. The most common form of X-ray imaging, projectional radiography, is simply a projection or "shadow" of the object rather than a point-to-point image…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-15 Thomas A. Smith , Zhehui Wang , Yanhua Shih

Conventional energy-integration black-white X-ray imaging lacks spectral information of X-ray photons. Although X-ray spectra (energy) can be distinguished by photon-counting technique typically with CdZnTe detectors, it is very challenging…

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In a standard computed tomography (CT) image, pixels having the same Hounsfield Units (HU) can correspond to different materials and it is therefore challenging to differentiate and quantify materials. Dual-energy CT (DECT) is desirable to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Wei Zhao , Tianling Lyu , Yang Chen , Lei Xing

We present a structured-illumination technique for full-field super-resolution transmission X-ray microscopy, which employs Fourier spectral decomposition inspired by established methods in visible-light microscopy. A 2D grating creating…

We describe a method aiming at increasing the dynamic range of X-ray detectors. Two X-ray exposures of an object are acquired at different dose levels and constitute the only input data. The values of the parameters which are needed to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evangelos Matsinos , Wolfgang Kaissl

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) has been widely applied to measure bone mineral density (BMD) and soft-tissue composition of human body. However, the use of DEXA is greatly limited for low-Z materials such as soft tissues due to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Huajie Han , Shenghao Wang , Kun Gao , Zhili Wang , Can Zhang , Meng Yang , Kai Zhang , Peiping Zhu

Dark-field imaging is widely used to infer fibre orientation from signal modulation as a function of sample orientation. However, current X-ray dark-field retrieval methods are restricted to single orientations and require tomography to…

A method for extracting the dark-field signal in propagation-based phase-contrast imaging is proposed. In the case of objects consisting predominantly of a single material, or several different materials with similar ratios of the real…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 T. E. Gureyev , D. M. Paganin , B. Arhatari , S. T. Taba , S. Lewis , P. C. Brennan , H. M. Quiney

Talbot(-Lau) interferometric X-ray darkfield imaging has, over the past decade, gained substantial interest for its ability to provide insights into a sample's microstructure below the imaging resolution by means of ultra small angle…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Jonas Graetz , Andreas Balles , Randolf Hanke , Simon Zabler