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ArticleScientific reports2017

Dual-energy fluorescent x-ray computed tomography system with a pinhole design: Use of K-edge discontinuity for scatter correction.

Tenta Sasaya, Naoki Sunaguchi, Thet- Thet-Lwin, Kazuyuki Hyodo, Tsutomu Zeniya, Tohoru Takeda, Tetsuya Yuasa

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Tenta SasayaGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan.
Naoki SunaguchiGraduate School of Science and Technology, Gunma University, Japan.
Thet- Thet-LwinSchool of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University, Japan.
Kazuyuki HyodoInstitute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Organization (KEK), Japan.
Tsutomu ZeniyaGraduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Japan.
Tohoru TakedaSchool of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University, Japan.
Tetsuya YuasaGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan.
Kitasato University · JPYamagata University · JPGunma University · JPHigh Energy Accelerator Research Organization · JPHirosaki University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose a pinhole-based fluorescent x-ray computed tomography (p-FXCT) system with a 2-D detector and volumetric beam that can suppress the quality deterioration caused by scatter components. In the corresponding p-FXCT technique, projections are acquired at individual incident energies just above and below the K-edge of the imaged trace element; then, reconstruction is performed based on the two sets of projections using a maximum likelihood expectation maximization algorithm that incorporates the scatter components. We constructed a p-FXCT imaging system and performed a preliminary experiment using a physical phantom and an I imaging agent. The proposed dual-energy p-FXCT improved the contrast-to-noise ratio by a factor of more than 2.5 compared to that attainable using mono-energetic p-FXCT for a 0.3 mg/ml I solution. We also imaged an excised rat's liver infused with a Ba contrast agent to demonstrate the feasibility of imaging a biological sample.

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Models, TheoreticalOptical ImagingScattering, RadiationTomography, X-Ray ComputedAnimalsHumans

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