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- Spectral computed tomography shows promise for better imaging and reducing artifacts using an energy resolution method for x-rays.
- A new approach utilizing a fully connected neural network (FCNN) has been developed to correct errors from x-ray crosstalk in edge-on detectors.
- Experimental results indicate that this method enhances image quality by minimizing crosstalk effects and increasing the accuracy of energy resolution in the reconstructed images.
Article Abstract
Spectral computed tomography has great potential for multi-energy imaging and anti-artifacts. The complete absorption-based energy resolving scheme of x-rays has been used for the integrity of detected information. However, this scheme is limited by the fact that the detector pixel thickness is high and fixed. Here, an energy resolving scheme is proposed using the crosstalk correction method for the incomplete absorption detection of x-rays. A fully connected neural network (FCNN)-based method was used to correct the difference caused by internal x-ray crosstalk of the edge-on detector. The energy and spatial features of the data which is collected in layers were combined to establish the mapping between the ideal data and the data with crosstalk at the pre-processing stage. Thereafter, to reconstruct the stable and highly accurate energy-resolving equations, the layers with low relative energy difference were selected and grouped together to reduce the accumulation difference. The experiment results demonstrate the feasibility of this energy resolving scheme. The differences caused by crosstalk can be suppressed through the proposed FCNN-based method. The resolving accuracy can be further improved by grouping more layers at forward positions in the pixel. Moreover, this improvement can be observed in the reconstructed images with reduced artifacts and improved quality.
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