Detective quantum efficiency of photon‐counting x‐ray detectors

J Tanguay, S Yun, HK Kim, IA Cunningham - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Single‐photon‐counting (SPC) x‐ray imaging has the potential to improve image
quality and enable novel energy‐dependent imaging methods. Similar to conventional …

Single-shot dual-energy x-ray imaging with a flat-panel sandwich detector for preclinical imaging

JC Han, HK Kim, DW Kim, S Yun, H Youn, S Kam… - Current Applied …, 2014 - Elsevier
We describe a multi-layer (“sandwich”) configuration detector consisting of two x-ray imaging
flat-panel detectors for single-shot (single-kV) dual-energy imaging. An intermediate copper …

Spectral angiography material decomposition using an empirical forward model and a dictionary-based regularization

K Mechlem, T Sellerer, S Ehn, D Münzel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By resolving the energy of the incident X-ray photons, spectral X-ray imaging with photon
counting detectors offers additional material-specific information compared to conventional …

Cascaded systems analysis of charge sharing in cadmium telluride photon‐counting x‐ray detectors

J Tanguay, IA Cunningham - Medical Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Single‐photon‐counting (SPC) and spectroscopic x‐ray detectors are under
development in academic and industry laboratories for medical imaging applications. The …

Theoretical comparison of energy‐resolved and digital‐subtraction angiography

S Aubert, IA Cunningham, J Tanguay - Medical Physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background X‐ray coronary angiography is a sub‐optimal vascular imaging technique
because it cannot suppress un‐enhanced anatomy that may obscure the visualization of …

The detective quantum efficiency of photon‐counting x‐ray detectors using cascaded‐systems analyses

J Tanguay, S Yun, HK Kim, IA Cunningham - Medical Physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Single‐photon counting (SPC) x‐ray imaging has the potential to improve image
quality and enable new advanced energy‐dependent methods. The purpose of this study is …

Experimental optimization of single‐exposure dual‐energy angiography with photon‐counting x‐ray detectors

S Aubert, J Tanguay - Medical Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Photon‐counting x‐ray detectors may enable single‐exposure dual‐energy
(DE) x‐ray angiography. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to experimentally optimize the …

Feasibility of active sandwich detectors for single-shot dual-energy imaging

S Yun, JC Han, DW Kim, H Youn… - … 2014: Physics of …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We revisit the doubly-layered sandwich detector configuration for single-shot dual-energy x-
ray imaging. In order to understand its proper operation, we investigated the contrast-to …

Contrast and quantum noise in single-exposure dual-energy thoracic imaging with photon-counting x-ray detectors

J Dhari, J Tanguay - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Photon-counting x-ray detectors (PCDs) can produce dual-energy (DE) x-ray
images of lung cancer in a single x-ray exposure. It is important to understand the factors …

Energy subtraction angiography is comparable to digital subtraction angiography in terms of iodine Rose SNR

CS Burton, JR Mayo, IA Cunningham - Medical Physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose X‐ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is widely used for vascular imaging.
However, motion artifacts render it largely unsuccessful for some applications including …