Optimum energies for dual-energy computed tomography
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 25 (2), 261-269
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/25/2/006
Abstract
By performing a dual-energy scan, separate information can be obtained on the Compton and photoelectric components of attenuation for an unknown material. This procedure has been analysed for the optimum energies, and for the optimum dose distribution between the two scans. It is found that an equal dose at both energies is a good compromise, compared with optimising the dose distribution for either the Compton or photoelectric components individually. For monoenergetic beams, it is found that low energy of 40 keV produces minimum noise when using high-energy beams of 80-100 keV. The analysis can be extended to polyenergetic beams by the inclusion of a noise factor. The above results are qualitatively unchanged, although the noise is increased by about 20% with integral dose equivalence and 50% with surface dose equivalence.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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