Ray transmission and fluorescence CT imaging system and method

    公开(公告)号:US10914693B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-09

    申请号:US16045243

    申请日:2018-07-25

    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a ray transmission and fluorescence CT imaging system and method. The system comprises: a ray source configured to emit a beam of rays; a rotational scanning device configured to perform rotational CT scanning on an object to be inspected; a transmission CT detector configured to receive the beam of rays which has passed through the object; a fluorescence CT detector configured to receive fluorescent photons excited by irradiation of the beam of rays on the object; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a transmission data signal and a fluorescence data signal respectively; and a control and data processing unit configured to control the ray source to emit the beam of rays, control the rotational scanning device to perform the rotational CT scanning, and obtain a transmission CT image and a fluorescence CT image simultaneously based on the transmission data signal and the fluorescence data signal.

    Dual-energy ray imaging methods and systems

    公开(公告)号:US10339673B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US15129455

    申请日:2015-12-23

    Abstract: Disclosed is a dual-energy ray imaging method and system. The method comprises: calculating the mass thicknesses of the materials in the overlapped area of two materials by using a calibrated surface fitting method, and then decomposing a pair of original high-energy and low-energy data for this pixel into two high-low-energy data sets corresponding to the two materials, and finally calculating and acquiring the composition result of different materials for each pixel. The disclosure is especially advantageous in that the problem of error recognition of materials due to the two overlapped materials can be eliminated and the stratified imaging of multiple materials can be achieved, thereby improving the accuracy of the substance recognition and reducing the rate of false positive and false negative which is very important to the applications in the field of security check and anti-smuggling.

    X-ray dual-energy CT reconstruction method
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    X-ray dual-energy CT reconstruction method 有权
    X射线双能CT重建方法

    公开(公告)号:US09513235B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-06

    申请号:US14337209

    申请日:2014-07-22

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a self-prior information based X-ray dual-energy CT reconstruction method, which can utilize information inherent in data to provide a prior model, thereby obtaining a reconstructed image with a high quality. The X-ray dual-energy CT reconstruction method according to the present disclosure comprises: (a) rating an energy spectrum and establishing a dual-energy lookup table; (b) collecting high-energy data pH and low-energy data pL of a dual-energy CT imaging system using a detector of the dual-energy CT imaging system; (c) obtaining projection images R1 and R2 of scaled images r1 and r2 according to the obtained high-energy data pH and low-energy data pL; (d) reconstructing the scaled image r2 using a first piece-wise smooth constraint condition and thereby obtaining an electron density image; and (e) reconstructing the scaled image r1 using a second piece-wise smooth constraint condition and thereby obtaining an equivalent atomic number image. In the present disclosure, the noise in the dual-energy reconstructed image can be effectively prohibited while keeping the resolution by effectively using information inherent in data.

    Abstract translation: 本公开涉及一种基于自我先验信息的X射线双能CT重建方法,其可以利用数据中固有的信息来提供先验模型,从而获得具有高质量的重建图像。 根据本公开的X射线双能CT重建方法包括:(a)评估能谱并建立双能量查找表; (b)使用双能CT成像系统的检测器收集双能CT成像系统的高能数据pH和低能量数据pL; (c)根据获得的高能量数据pH和低能量数据pL,获得缩放图像r1和r2的投影图像R1和R2; (d)使用第一分段平滑约束条件重建缩放图像r2,从而获得电子密度图像; 和(e)使用第二分段平滑约束条件重建缩放图像r1,从而获得等效的原子序数图像。 在本公开中,可以有效地禁止双能量重构图像中的噪声,同时通过有效地使用数据中固有的信息来保持分辨率。

    X-ray detection method and X-ray detector

    公开(公告)号:US10724969B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-28

    申请号:US16175796

    申请日:2018-10-30

    Abstract: An X-ray detection method and an X-ray detector are provided. The X-ray detection method according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes: dividing an energy range of photons emitted by an X-ray source into a number N of energy windows, where N is an integer greater than 0; obtaining a weighting factor for each of the number N of energy windows based on linear attenuation coefficients of a substance of interest and a background substance of an imaging target; obtaining a weighting factor matrix for M output channels of an X-ray detector based on the weighting factor for each of the number N of energy windows, where M is an integer greater than 0; and obtaining output results of the M output channels based on the weighting factor matrix and numbers of photons having an energy range falling into individual energy windows of the number N of energy windows.

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