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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 main forms: dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) and…
Modeling of the collimator-detector response (CDR) in SPECT reconstruction enables improved resolution and accuracy, and is thus important for quantitative imaging applications such as dosimetry. The implementation of CDR modeling, however,…
Purpose: To evaluate a proposed method to reconstruct CT numbers that accurately mimic conventional CT numbers from spectral CT data, as would have been produced by a conventional system without effects of beam hardening. Approach: We…
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Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) detectors exhibiting multiple coincidence time resolution (CTR) components, such as those induced by the mixing of Cherenkov and scintillation photons, have attracted increasing…
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Spectroscopy requires high-precision wavelength discrimination but typically requires bulky, alignment-sensitive instrumentation. To address this, we present a compact computational spectrometer built from a single germanium PN photodiode.…
There is widespread interest in estimating the fluorescence properties of natural materials in an image. However, the separation between reflected and fluoresced components is difficult, because it is impossible to distinguish reflected and…
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