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¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.

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This study introduces an advanced spectral computed tomography (CT) reconstruction method using a novel 3D sparsity constraint. The technique significantly improves image quality, noise reduction, and material decomposition accuracy in spectral CT imaging.

Keywords:

locally linear transform material decomposition spectral CT three-dimensional (3D) gradient sparsity

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Medical Imaging
Computational Imaging
Photon Counting Detectors

Background:

Spectral computed tomography (CT) extends conventional CT by utilizing energy-discriminating photon counting detectors (PCDs).
PCD-based spectral CT offers enhanced energy resolution and material distinguishability, crucial for medical and industrial applications.
Improving reconstruction quality and material decomposition accuracy remains a key challenge in spectral CT.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an optimization-based spectral CT reconstruction method incorporating an innovative sparsity constraint.
To enhance image reconstruction quality and material decomposition accuracy in PCD-based spectral CT.
To address limitations of existing methods in noise suppression and detail preservation.

Main Methods:

A locally linear transform is applied to spectral channel images to derive 1D gradient sparsity.
A joint 3D gradient sparsity is established by combining spectral and spatial domain information (piecewise constant prior).
A 3D L0-norm is used as a smoothness constraint within a general optimization framework, solved by an iterative algorithm.

Main Results:

The proposed method outperforms conventional filtered backprojection (FBP), total variation (TV), and 2D L0-norm methods in numerical simulations and phantom experiments.
Quantitative assessments (PSNR, NMAD, SSIM) confirm superior noise suppression and fine structure maintenance.
The method effectively avoids gray value shift, a limitation observed in other techniques like TVLR.

Conclusions:

The developed method effectively converts spectral structural similarity into 1D gradient sparsity, avoiding gray value shift.
The 3D L0-norm jointly measures sparsity across spectral and spatial dimensions, reinforcing sparse features without distortions.
The optimization model is efficiently solved, and experimental results validate superior performance in noise reduction, structure preservation, and decomposition accuracy.