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Radiology ,Nuclear Medicine & Imaging","Eletrical & Eletronics Engineeing
We present a dual-energy (DE) transmission computed tomography (CT) reconst
ruction method. It is statistically motivated and features nonnegativity co
nstraints in the density domain. A penalized weighted least squares (PWLS)
objective function has been chosen to handle the non-Poisson noise added by
amorphous silicon (aSi:H) detectors. A Gauss-Seidel algorithm has been use
d to minimize the objective function. The behavior of the method in terms o
f bias/standard deviation tradeoff has been compared to that of a DE method
that is based on filtered back projection (FBP). The advantages of the DE
PWLS method are largest for high noise and/or low flux cases, Qualitative r
esults suggest this as well. Also, the reconstructed images of an object wi
th opaque regions are presented. Possible applications of the method are: a
ttenuation correction for positron emission tomography (PET) images, variou
s quantitative computed tomography (QCT) methods such as bone mineral densi
tometry (BMD), and the removal of metal streak artifacts.