The introduction of dual energy CT, DECT, in the field of medical healthcare has made it possible to extract more information of the scanned objects. This in turn has the potential to improve the accuracy in radiation therapy dose planning. One problem that remains before successful material decomposition can be achieved however, is the presence of beam hardening and scatter artifacts that arise in a scan. Methods currently in clinical use for removal of beam hardening often bias the CT numbers. Hence, the possibility for an appropriate tissue decomposition is limited. Here a method for successful decomposition as well as removal of the beam hardening artifact is presented. The method uses effective linear attenuations for the five base materials, water, protein, adipose, cortical bone and marrow, to perform the decomposition on reconstructed simulated data. This is performed inside an iterative loop together with the polychromatic x-ray spectra to remove the beam hardening
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-80964 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Grandell, Oscar |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Datorseende, Linköpings universitet, Tekniska högskolan |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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