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  • Computational Imaging
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Dual-energy CT (DECT) enables material decomposition, but accurately separating three materials, especially with metal artifacts, remains challenging.
  • Existing model-based material decomposition (MBMD) methods struggle with inherent indeterminacy in three-material problems.
  • Volume conservation is a fundamental physical principle applicable to material composition analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel model-based optimization algorithm for one-step, three-material DECT decomposition directly from projection data.
  • To incorporate the volume conservation principle (VCP) as constraints to address the underdetermined nature of the three-material problem.
  • To validate the proposed constrained MBMD (CMBMD) method for bone composition analysis in the presence of metal hardware using DE cone-beam CT (CBCT).

Main Methods:

  • Developed a constrained MBMD (CMBMD) algorithm by integrating VCP equality and non-negativity constraints into the MBMD objective function.
  • Utilized voxel-wise separability to partition the image into VCP-constrained and unconstrained regions for optimized solving.
  • Validated CMBMD using simulations with anthropomorphic knee phantoms and experimental test-bench studies, assuming a kV-switching DECT protocol.

Main Results:

  • CMBMD demonstrated a substantial reduction in metal artifacts compared to conventional two-material MBMD approaches.
  • Cortical bone volume fraction estimation accuracy was significantly improved, showing 5-10x lower normalized root mean squared error in simulations.
  • Experimental validation showed a 2-2.5x improvement in bone composition accuracy using the CMBMD method.

Conclusions:

  • One-step three-material decomposition of DECT is feasible using VCP as an optimization constraint, as demonstrated by CMBMD.
  • The proposed CMBMD method offers improved accuracy and artifact reduction, particularly in scenarios involving metal implants.
  • CMBMD holds potential for various DECT applications, including bone marrow edema imaging and multi-contrast imaging, especially on systems lacking coinciding energy projections.