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Accurate measurement of the fat-to-muscle ratio in animal model is important for obesity research. An efficient way to measure the fat to muscle ratio in animal model using dual-energy absorptiometry is presented in this paper. A radioactive source exciting x-ray fluorescence from a target material is used to provide the two x-ray energies needed. The x-rays, after transmitting through the sample, are measured with an energy-sensitive Ge detector. Phantoms and specimens were measured. The results showed that the method was sensitive to the fat to muscle ratios with good linearity. A standard deviation of a few percent in the fat to muscle ratio could be observed with the x-ray dose of 0.001 mGy.
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Dual-energy subtraction imaging (DES) is a method to improve the detectability of contrast agents over a lumpy background. Two images, acquired at x-ray energies above and below an absorption edge of the agent material, are logarithmically subtracted, resulting in suppression of the signal from the tissue background and a relative enhancement of the signal from the agent. Although promising, DES is still not widely used in clinical practice. One reason may be the need for two distinctly separated x-ray spectra that are still close to the absorption edge, realized through dual exposures which may introduce motion unsharpness. In this study, electronic spectrum-splitting with a silicon-strip detector is theoretically and experimentally investigated for a mammography model with iodinated contrast agent. Comparisons are made to absorption imaging and a near-ideal detector using a signal-to-noise ratio that includes both statistical and structural noise. Similar to previous studies, heavy absorption filtration was needed to narrow the spectra at the expense of a large reduction in x-ray flux. Therefore, potential improvements using a chromatic multi-prism x-ray lens (MPL) for filtering were evaluated theoretically. The MPL offers a narrow tunable spectrum, and we show that the image quality can be improved compared to conventional filtering methods.
Purpose: Dual-energy CT (DECT) has been shown to derive stopping power ratio (SPR) map with higher accuracy than conventional single energy CT (SECT) by obtaining the energy dependence of photon interactions. However, DECT is not as widely implemented as SECT in proton radiation therapy simulation. This work presents a learning-based method to synthetize DECT images from SECT for proton radiation therapy. Methods: The proposed method uses a residual attention generative adversarial network. Residual blocks with attention gates were used to force the model focus on the difference between DECT maps and SECT images. To evaluate the accuracy of the method, we retrospectively investigated 20 head-and-neck cancer patients with both DECT and SECT scans available. The high and low energy CT images acquired from DECT acted as learning targets in the training process for SECT datasets and were evaluated against results from the proposed method using a leave-one-out cross-validation strategy. To evaluate our method in the context of a practical application, we generated SPR maps from sDECT using physics-based dual-energy stoichiometric method and compared the maps to those generated from DECT. Results: The synthesized DECT images showed an average mean absolute error around 30 Hounsfield Unit (HU) across the whole-body volume. The corresponding SPR maps generated from synthetic DECT showed an average normalized mean square error of about 1% with reduced noise level and artifacts than those from original DECT. Conclusions: The accuracy of the synthesized DECT image by our machine-learning-based method was evaluated on head and neck patient, and potential feasibility for proton treatment planning and dose calculation was shown by generating SPR map using the synthesized DECT.
Chromatic properties of the multi-prism and prism-array X-ray lenses (MPL and PAL) can potentially be utilized for efficient energy filtering and dose reduction in mammography. The line-shaped foci of the lenses are optimal for coupling to photon-counting silicon strip detectors in a scanning system. A theoretical model was developed and used to investigate the benefit of two lenses compared with an absorption-filtered reference system. The dose reduction of the MPL filter was ~15% compared with the reference system at matching scan time, and the spatial resolution was higher. The dose of the PAL-filtered system was found to be ~20% lower than for the reference system at equal scan time and resolution, and only ~20% higher than for a monochromatic beam. An investigation of some practical issues remains, including the feasibility of brilliant-enough X-ray sources and manufacturing of a polymer PAL.
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