GPMP students Gia Jadick and Geneva Schlafly, from La Rivière Lab, just published a new paper in the Journal of Medical Imaging (JMI)!
Their latest paper in JMI assesses the potential advantages of “MV-kV” dual-energy CT imaging: utilizing MV and kV spectra jointly to improve image quality through material decomposition and synthesis of virtual monoenergetic images.
In simulated CT images of the pelvis, they find that MV-kV can be used for metal artifact correction and can improve the native contrast of images. More advanced denoising is generally necessary for MV-kV to improve contrast-to-noise ratio in the absence of metal.
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Dual-energy computed tomography imaging with megavoltage and kilovoltage X-ray spectra
Giavanna Jadick, Geneva Schlafly, Patrick J. La Rivière, Dual-energy computed tomography imaging with megavoltage and kilovoltage X-ray spectra, J. Med. Imag. 11(2), 023501 (2024), doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.11.2.023501.