34 results about "Material decomposition" patented technology

A system and method for projection based spectral X-ray imaging, such as computed tomography (CT) imaging, the system and method comprising performing projection based material decomposition based on spectral X-ray data to generate a set of material basis sinograms, and performing a weighted combination of at least part of at least two material basis sinograms of the set of material basis sinograms into a reconstructed image based on material weighting in the projection domain.

Methods and systems are provided for reconstructing images within a photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) system. In an example, a method comprises, during a scan of an imaging subject, obtaining photon counts from a detector element of a photon-counting detector of the PCCT system, the photon counts partitioned into a plurality of energy bins based on an energy imparted by each photon on the detector element; encoding the photon counts at the plurality of energy bins of the detector element into a single scalar output value, the single scalar output value representing a distribution of spectral information across the energy bins; and reconstructing an image from projection data acquired via the photon-counting detector, the projection data including the single scalar output value generated at the detector element; wherein a basis material decomposition process is not performed during image reconstruction.

An X-ray computed tomography (CT) apparatus includes an X-ray tube configured to radiate X-rays; a detector configured to detect X-rays radiated by the X-ray tube and passed through a subject; a reconstruction processing unit configured to reconstruct imaging data output by the detector and generate CT image data and material decomposition image data; a first inference unit configured to perform inference on the material decomposition image data; a second inference unit configured to perform inference on the CT image data; a third inference unit configured to perform inference on composite image data; a selection unit configured to, in a case where an inference result of the first inference unit is different from an inference result of the second inference unit, select an inference result of the third inference unit; and a display control unit configured to cause the selected inference result to be displayed.

The present application relates to the technical field of spectral CT imaging, and particularly relates to a physical parameter-based material decomposition method and device, electronic equipment and medium, the method comprising: calculating at least two groups of different equivalent energy CT projection correction parameters and spectral correction parameters based on known phantom spectral CT pre-scan data and initial equivalent spectrum; correcting a material decomposition model according to the parameters to establish a mapping relationship between CT projection data and base material thickness under corresponding equivalent energy. The corresponding projection data of the to-be-measured phantom is corrected using the projection correction parameters, and the base material thickness data is obtained in combination with the mapping relationship; the base material image is generated through analysis or iterative reconstruction, and the virtual single-energy image is obtained through linear combination, thereby solving the problem of low spectral CT material quantitative analysis precision in the related art and improving the precision of spectral CT material quantitative analysis.

To provide a PCCT device capable of improving interpolation precision regarding material discrimination and shortening the processing time, and a control method for the device.SOLUTION: A PCCT device including an X-ray source irradiating a subject with X rays, a scanner turning a photon counting type detector that detects the X-rays passing through the subject for each of a plurality of energy bins around the subject, and an image generator using projection data calculated on the basis of an output of the photon counting type detector to generate a tomographic image is characterized by further having: a map generation unit generating a calibrated data map on the basis of the number of X-ray photons passing through each of a plurality of calibration phantoms having a first base material and a second base material with known materials and thickness; an area division unit dividing the calibrated data map into a non-linear area and a linear area; and an interpolation unit performing non-linear interpolation in the non-linear area and linear interpolation in the linear area.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

To provide a system and method for projection-based spectral X-ray imaging such as computed tomography (CT) imaging for improving image quality such as reduction of noise, improvement of a contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and patient dose efficiency.SOLUTION: Provided is a system and method that includes performing a projection-based material decomposition based on spectral X-ray data to generate a set of material-based sinograms, and performing a weighted combination of at least portions of at least two material-based sinograms of the set of material-based sinograms into a reconstructed image based on material weighting in the projection domain.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

A method for forming radiographic images of oral anatomy of a subject exposes the subject to radiation along a radiation path. At each position on a detector array in the radiation path, the number of photons received from the radiation through the subject are counted, wherein the detector maintains a first photon count for photons having a first energy above a first threshold energy value and at least a second photon count for photons having a second energy above a higher threshold energy value. One or more materials in the mouth of the subject are identified by performing material decomposition processing, according to two or more basis materials, and distinguishing between natural oral anatomy features and fabricated materials in the mouth of the subject according to the material decomposition processing. Conditioned image content enhances the distinction between natural oral anatomy features and fabricated material according to the material decomposition.

An X-ray computed tomography (CT) apparatus includes an X-ray tube configured to radiate X-rays; a detector configured to detect X-rays radiated by the X-ray tube and passed through a subject; a reconstruction processing unit configured to reconstruct imaging data output by the detector and generate CT image data and material decomposition image data; a first inference unit configured to perform inference on the material decomposition image data; a second inference unit configured to perform inference on the CT image data; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display at least one of an inference result of the first inference unit and an inference result of the second inference unit.

The present invention comprises: a decomposition condition input unit to which decomposition conditions, a target amount, the kind of decomposition product, and a decomposition target material are inputted; a measurement data acquisition unit which acquires measurement data of at least either of the state of the decomposition target material to be decomposed or an emerging product that emerges through decomposition of the decomposition target material; an analysis data accumulation unit which accumulates analysis data on the state of polysaccharides constituting biomass in a decomposition process for each of the conditions, the emerging product that emerges through decomposition of the polysaccharides, and reaction products generated in the decomposition process; a reaction product estimation unit which estimates, on the basis of the decomposition conditions, the measurement data, and the accumulated analysis data, the reaction products generated through decomposition of the decomposition target material; a determination unit which selects the decomposition product from the estimated reaction products and determines whether or not the generated amount of the decomposition product has reached the target amount; and a control unit which performs control in which, when the determination unit determines that the target amount has been reached, supply of energy or a substance for decomposing the polysaccharides is stopped, and when the determination unit determines that the target amount has not been reached, the supply is continued.

The present invention comprises: a decomposition condition input unit to which decomposition conditions, a target amount, the kind of decomposition product, and a decomposition target material are inputted; a measurement data acquisition unit which acquires measurement data of at least either of the state of the decomposition target material to be decomposed or an emerging product that emerges through decomposition of the decomposition target material; an analysis data accumulation unit which accumulates analysis data on the state of polysaccharides constituting biomass in a decomposition process for each of the conditions, the emerging product that emerges through decomposition of the polysaccharides, and reaction products generated in the decomposition process; a reaction product estimation unit which estimates, on the basis of the decomposition conditions, the measurement data, and the accumulated analysis data, the reaction products generated through decomposition of the decomposition target material; a determination unit which selects the decomposition product from the estimated reaction products and determines whether or not the generated amount of the decomposition product has reached the target amount; and a control unit which performs control in which, when the determination unit determines that the target amount has been reached, supply of energy or a substance for decomposing the polysaccharides is stopped, and when the determination unit determines that the target amount has not been reached, the supply is continued.

The present invention relates to a method (1), resp. a device, system and computer-program product, for material decomposition of spectral imaging projection data. The method comprises receiving (2) projection data acquired by a spectral imaging system and reducing (3) noise in the projection data by combining corresponding spectral values for different projection rays to obtain noise-reduced projection data. The method comprises applying (6) a first projection-domain material decomposition algorithm to the noise-reduced projection data to obtain a first set of material path length estimates, and applying (7) a second projection-domain material decomposition algorithm to the projection data to obtain a second set of material path length estimates. The second projection-domain material decomposition algorithm comprises an optimization that penalizes a deviation between the second set of material path length estimates being optimized and the first set of material path length estimates.

This disclosure provides a method for obtaining an energy threshold, a method for decomposing a matrix material, a system, an apparatus, and a medium. The method for obtaining the energy threshold includes: acquiring imaging images of at least two preset calibration phantoms corresponding to preset energy ranges based on preset imaging parameters; wherein the preset calibration phantoms include a target matrix material, and the preset energy ranges are determined according to a preset energy threshold in the preset imaging parameters; acquiring the mass decay coefficient of the preset calibration phantoms based on the imaging images; determining the decay difference between the target matrix materials based on the mass decay coefficient; and determining the target energy threshold for imaging based on the decay difference and the preset energy threshold. This disclosure calculates the decay difference based on the actually measured mass decay coefficient of the preset calibration phantom corresponding to the target matrix material, and determines the target energy threshold based on the decay difference and the preset energy threshold used during measurement, which can assist in determining the selection of the target energy threshold for any target matrix material to be decomposed.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of CT imaging. Provided is a method for alleviating a metal artifact in an energy spectrum CT image domain. During the imaging of a target (such as a patient) having a metal implant, metal artifacts can still be observed in virtual single-energy images obtained by means of existing devices, and a metal artifact is especially more obvious in a virtual single-energy image at a low energy (a low keV). In the method, a non-artifact region (or a low-artifact region) in a virtual single-energy image having an artifact is extracted and a base material is decomposed (such as a water-based decomposed image or a bone-based decomposed image), so that a relationship model between the base material and an artifact-free (or low-artifact) image (such as a high-energy virtual single-energy image) is constructed; then, pixel (voxel) CT values, corresponding to the artifact region in the foregoing artifact-contained image, in the artifact-free (or low-artifact) single-energy image are substituted into the relationship model, so that new base material decomposition is obtained; and then a virtual single-energy image under any energy after artifact reduction is synthesized. The method can effectively suppress metal artifacts in virtual single-energy images of existing CT devices, the manufacturers and types of which are not limited.

A photon counting CT device and a material decomposition method capable of reducing the influence of variation in the amount of accumulation due to differences in the line quality of X-rays. A photon counting CT device characterized by comprising: a storage unit that, while changing the thickness of a first base material and the thickness of a second base material, acquires the energy spectrum of X-rays that have transmitted a calibration member composed of the first base material and the second base material as known materials to become a reference, and stores the X-ray amount as calibration data in advance; a correction table creation unit that, while changing the thickness of the first base material, the thickness of the second base material, and the X-ray amount, acquires the energy spectrum of X-rays that have transmitted the calibration member, and creates a correction table that indicates the relationship between the number of X-ray photons per energy bin and the X-ray amount; and an image generation unit that generates a tomographic image that has been decomposed by each material based on the calibration data and the correction table.

This application relates to the field of radiation imaging technology, and in particular to a multi-energy CT scattering correction method and apparatus based on the Boltzmann transport equation. The method includes: preprocessing the initial multi-energy projection data to be corrected obtained after multi-energy CT scanning of an object to obtain initial corrected multi-energy projection data; performing material density conversion on the initial corrected multi-energy projection data to obtain material density distribution data; discretizing and labeling the actual scanning energy spectrum of the object during the multi-energy CT scanning process to determine the energy spectrum matrix in the pre-constructed labeled Boltzmann transport equation; calculating the multi-energy scattering signal data of the object; and using the multi-energy scattering signal data to obtain the actual multi-energy projection data. This solves the problems in related technologies, such as insufficient scattering correction leading to distortion of material density obtained from material decomposition, and the need for multiple scattering estimates under different X-ray source conditions due to the multi-energy spectrum, resulting in a lengthy and complex processing procedure.

The utility model provides a triple-effect evaporation system device which comprises a first-effect heating evaporation device, a second-effect heating evaporation device and a triple-effect heating evaporation device, and the first-effect heating evaporation device, the second-effect heating evaporation device and the triple-effect heating evaporation device are respectively and independently provided with a discharging circulation pipeline; a discharge circulating pipeline of the triple-effect heating evaporation device is provided with a density monitoring assembly and a discharge port, the density monitoring assembly is arranged on one side, opposite to the discharge flowing direction, of the discharge port, the discharge port is connected with a discharge pipeline, and the discharge pipeline is provided with a discharge valve. According to the triple-effect evaporation system device, the density monitoring assembly is used for monitoring the discharging concentration, and the problems of material decomposition, material crystallization and the like caused by local over-concentration in the concentration process are avoided; entrainment is effectively prevented, product entrainment in the concentrated evaporation condensate is greatly reduced, and the evaporation condensate is effectively recycled.

The present application provides a kind of material identification method, this method is based on the material decomposition of double effect, is calibrated with two or more materials, improves the accuracy of material decomposition, obtains more accurate atomic number estimation physical model by adaptive parameter determination method.The present application is divided into empirical double effect material decomposition and adaptive effective atomic number estimation two parts, wherein empirical double effect material decomposition, by the calibration of multiple standard phantoms, the determination of decomposition parameters and the estimation of electron density are realized by the polynomial combination of projection data and the constraint in image domain;Effective atomic number estimation establishes an adaptive effective atomic number estimation model by the calibration of known standard phantom, realizes the estimation of effective atomic number of imaging material.The present application can realize more accurate electron density and effective atomic number estimation for different kinds of materials at different energies through adaptive material decomposition algorithm, improves the precision of material identification.

This invention discloses an empirical correction method for material decomposition using energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The method comprises: 1) Selecting a primary calibrator based on the material of the substance of interest, with the number of its material components matching the number of energy regions in the EDS; establishing a first polynomial relationship between the EDS projection data of the primary calibrator and the primary calibrator using EDS; empirically decomposing the substance scanned by EDS based on the material decomposition coefficients of the primary calibrator to obtain the empirical decomposition value of the substance; 2) Selecting a series of samples with different concentrations as secondary calibrators; empirically decomposing the secondary calibrators using the material decomposition coefficients; obtaining the empirical decomposition error of the secondary calibrators by referring to the actual decomposition value corresponding to the actual concentration value of the secondary calibrators; then using the second polynomial relationship between the empirical decomposition value of the secondary calibrators and the empirical decomposition error to obtain the error of the empirical decomposition value of the scanned substance, and correcting the empirical decomposition value of the substance.

A method for use in a material decomposition procedure applied to dual-energy CT projection data. Material decomposition is often done using pre-computed lookup tables (LUTs) for mapping input projection data, acquired with particular X-ray source parameters, to material data values. However, the X-ray source parameters can vary over the course of a scan, making the results inaccurate. Embodiments are based on determining in advance a plurality of sets of basis LUTs for each of a plurality of different possible ranges of values over which the X-ray source parameter may vary during a scan. The basis LUTs in each set are devised as being LUTs which represent the majority contribution to the overall material decomposition function for the time-varying energy spectrum. When performing a material decomposition procedure, an appropriate set of the basis LUTs is chosen, based on an identified range of variation of the X-ray source parameter during the scan, and a linear combination of the basis LUTs is defined, using weightings which depend upon instantaneous values of the X-ray source parameter during the scan period.

An X-ray imaging system, such as a computed tomography (CT) computed tomography (CT) imaging system is provided for material decomposition calibration and intended for use with a calibration phantom. The X-ray imaging system comprises an X-ray source configured to emit X-rays and an X-ray detector arranged in the X-ray beam path configured to generate detector data. The calibration phantom is located in the X-ray beam path. The X-ray imaging system further comprises an X-ray beam limiting device including at least one calibration element in the X-ray beam path. The X-ray imaging system also comprises image processing circuitry configured to acquire projection data for a set of projections based on the detector data, and to determine pathlengths through at least one material of the at least one calibration element and at least one material of the calibration phantom, at least partly based on acquired projection data, for performing material decomposition calibration.

Methods and systems are provided for calibrating a photon counting computed tomography (PCCT) system. To reduce an amount of calibration data stored in a memory of the PCCT system, and to reduce a time spent calibrating the PCCT system, a method is provided for using a material decomposition (MD) calibration vector generated for a first focal spot size to correct projection data acquired using the PCCT system at different focal spot sizes. To compensate for spectral differences due to focal spot size, the projection data is corrected and normalized by air calibration vectors generated for each different focal spot size.

The invention discloses a threshold-variable micro-focus photon counting CT scanning system and a multi-base material decomposition method, and the method comprises the steps: 1, scanning a detected object through a micro-focus X-ray source, adjusting the energy threshold of each round of a photon counting detector, staggering a sampling angle, collecting multicolor projection data under Y-round scanning, enabling the total data volume to meet a relational expression K = phi * Y, wherein phi is the number of energy channels of the detector; 2, initializing an iterative value of the base material image; step 3, carrying out dimension reduction processing on each round of geometric consistent projection data through an elimination technology, reconstructing a part of base material images by adopting a weighted image domain decomposition method, and then solving the eliminated base material images through back substitution; and step 4, iteration is repeated until convergence. According to the invention, through variable energy threshold and staggered angle scanning, on the premise of not increasing hardware cost and scanning time, multi-energy spectrum data acquisition is realized, model complexity is reduced, and multiple base materials are reconstructed with high precision.

The invention relates to the technical field of energy spectrum CT imaging, in particular to a substance decomposition method and device based on physical parameters, electronic equipment and a medium, and the method comprises the steps: calculating at least two groups of CT projection correction parameters and energy spectrum correction parameters of different equivalent energy based on energy spectrum CT pre-scanning data and an initial equivalent energy spectrum of a known motif; and correcting the material decomposition model according to the data, and establishing a mapping relation between CT projection data and the base material thickness under corresponding equivalent energy. Correcting the corresponding projection data of the to-be-measured die body by using the projection correction parameter, and obtaining the thickness data of the base material in combination with the mapping relationship; according to the method, the basic substance image is generated through analysis or iterative reconstruction, and the virtual single-energy image is obtained after linear combination, so that the problem of low energy spectrum CT substance quantitative analysis precision in related technologies is solved, and the energy spectrum CT substance quantitative analysis precision is improved.

Methods and systems are provided for calibrating a photon counting computed tomography (PCCT) system (100, 200). In order to reduce the amount of calibration data stored in a memory of the PCCT system (100, 200), and in order to reduce the time taken to calibrate the PCCT system (100, 200), a method (600, 700) is provided for correcting projection data acquired at different focal spot sizes using the PCCT system using a material decomposition (MD) calibration vector generated for a first focal spot size. To compensate for spectral differences due to focal spot sizes, the projection data is corrected and normalized by air calibration vectors generated for each different focal spot size.

A method for material decomposition of an object based on spectral X-ray scan data for the object and based on application of a frequency split approach. The method comprises using two AI models in parallel to perform the material decomposition analysis based on input spectral X-ray data, wherein the models are configured such that one exhibits higher bias and lower variance (lower noise) than the other. The input spectral X-ray data is fed to both models. The output material composition data from the low bias model is low-pass filtered and the output material composition data from the low variance model is high pass filtered. The outputs from the two models are linearly combined, either before the filtering or after. The resulting combined material decomposition data has both lower bias and lower noise compared to the output generated if just one AI model were to be used.

The invention relates to the technical field of purification devices, and discloses a phase change energy storage material gradient sweating purification device which comprises a device shell, a feeding hopper and a driving device are arranged on the upper side of the device shell, an outer cylinder is arranged on the inner top wall of the device shell, a heating device is arranged on the outer wall of the outer cylinder, an inner cylinder is arranged in the outer cylinder, and a heating device is arranged on the inner wall of the inner cylinder. A plurality of micro through holes are formed in the lower side of the inner cylinder, a discharging pipe is fixedly arranged on the lower side of the outer cylinder, blades and a connecting rod are fixedly arranged at the output end of the driving device, and a liquid receiving pipe is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the lower end of the connecting rod. Through the device shell, the feeding hopper, the heating device, the outer cylinder, the inner cylinder, the micro through hole, the discharging pipe, the driving device, the paddle, a connecting rod, a liquid receiving pipe, a waste material box and a material storage box, the problem that when high-temperature distillation is used for purifying a high-boiling-point or heat-sensitive phase-change energy storage material, the material decomposition or performance change can be possibly caused, and the application range of the material is limited is solved.

A computer system (MD) and relates method for spectral-data based material decomposition. The system comprises a statistical module (SM) configured to fit, per patch in input spectral imagery, a set of probability distributions (Pk) to a respective vector spectral diagram (5) for the respective patch (A). The patch is one of a plurality of patches in the input spectral imagery obtained by operation of a spectral imaging apparatus. The probability distributions are combinable into a probability map indicative of material type probabilities per image location in the input spectral imagery.

The application discloses a rotary kiln cylinder material state axial trend identification method and processing strategy. In the rotary kiln operation process, the cylinder wall vibration signals of each point are obtained in real time through a plurality of vibration collection points arranged along the kiln cylinder outer wall axis. Each vibration collection point is provided with a solid conduction vibration sensor. The collection end of the vibration sensor is in rolling contact with the kiln cylinder outer wall through a shock transmission roller. The real-time working condition parameters of the rotary kiln are obtained, and the working condition parameters at least include kiln rotating speed, feeding amount and motor load. The vibration signals of each collection point are preprocessed and feature extracted to obtain the vibration feature vectors corresponding to each point. Then, the vibration feature vectors of each point and the real-time working condition parameters are input into an axial material state mapping model, and the material state trend curve in the kiln length direction is output by the mapping model. The material state trend curve at least includes a material decomposition rate curve. The drift of the reaction completion point and the precursors of the ring formation can be found.

To efficiently calculate the transmission length of an object substance to be an object of a substance discrimination.SOLUTION: A medical information processing device calculates the transmission length of an object substance to be an object of a substance discrimination within a subject's body using data obtained by imaging the subject with a photon-counting CT scanner and an equation describing X-ray attenuation. The medical information processing device includes a calculation unit. The calculation unit sets two equations on the basis of the count values of X-ray photons counted in each of two energy bins located before and after a K-edge of the object substance under imaging conditions in which the energy width of the two energy bins is set narrower than a predetermined threshold. The calculation unit calculates the transmission length of the object substance by considering the X-ray attenuation in the calibration term, photoelectric absorption term, and Compton scattering term as equivalent, in the two set equations.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1