High-contrast K-Edge CT by CdTe photon counting detector

Author

Ashitomi, K. ; Imura, Yuma ; Mimura, Hidenori ; Aoki, Toyohiro

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Electron., Shizuoka Univ., Hamamatsu, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

X-ray are used in Medical treatment field as Roentgenogram, X-ray CT, PET and so on. It is potentially demanded for using low dose X-ray for human body. We conducted K-Edge CT with photon-counting detector using cadmium telluride(CdTe) and made extracted images of Iodine which is used for contrast media at blood vessel in angiography. Though there are some noise on the others part as low dose X-ray, we can see blood vessel clearly. We can make higher contrast CT images of iodine by using high energy resolution.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; X-ray detection; blood vessels; cadmium compounds; computerised tomography; feature extraction; image resolution; iodine; medical image processing; photon counting; semiconductor counters; wide band gap semiconductors; CdTe; PET; X-ray computerised tomography; angiography; blood vessel; cadmium telluride counting detector; contrast media; extracted images; high energy resolution; high-contrast K-edge computerised tomography; higher contrast CT images; human body; iodine; low dose X-ray; medical treatment field; noise; photon-counting detector; roentgenogram; Attenuation; Computed tomography; Detectors; Electron tubes; Energy resolution; Photonics; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0533-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829839

Filename

6829839