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SU-D-218-05: Material Quantification in Spectral X-Ray Imaging: Optimization and Validation.

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PURPOSE:To develop and validate a multivariate statistical method to optimize scanning parameters for material quantification in spectral x-rayimaging. METHODS:An optimization metric was constructed by extensively sampling the thickness space for the expected number of counts for m (two or three) materials. This resulted in an m-dimensional confidence region ofmaterial quantities, e.g. thicknesses. Minimization of the ellipsoidal confidence region leads to the optimization of energy bins. For the given spectrum, the minimum counts required for effective material separation can be determined by predicting the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the quantification. A Monte Carlo (MC) simulation framework using BEAM was developed to validate the metric. Projection data of the m-materials was generated and material decomposition was performed for combinations of iodine, calcium and water by minimizing the z-score between the expected spectrum and binned measurements. The mean square error (MSE) and variance were calculated to measure the accuracy and precision of this approach, respectively. The minimum MSE corresponds to the optimal energy bins in the BEAM simulations. In the optimization metric, this is equivalent to the smallest confidence region. The SNR of the simulated images was also compared to the predictions from the metric. RESULTS:TheMSE was dominated by the variance for the given material combinations,which demonstrates accurate material quantifications. The BEAMsimulations revealed that the optimization of energy bins was accurate to within 1keV. The SNRs predicted by the optimization metric yielded satisfactory agreement but were expectedly higher for the BEAM simulations due to the inclusion of scattered radiation. CONCLUSIONS:The validation showed that the multivariate statistical method provides accurate material quantification, correct location of optimal energy bins and adequateprediction of image SNR. The BEAM code system is suitable for generating spectral x- ray imaging simulations.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Nik SJ,Thing RS,Watts R,Meyer J

doi

10.1118/1.4734708

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-06-01 00:00:00

pages

3623

issue

6Part3

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

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SU-D-218-05: Material Quantification in Spectral X-Ray Imaging: Optimization and Validation.