Material Characterization of Dual-Energy Computed Tomographic Data Using Polar Coordinates

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new dual-energy computed tomographic postprocessing approach on the basis of the transformation of dual-energy radiodensity data into polar coordinates. Given 2 corresponding dual-energy computed tomographic images, the attenuation data D(U1), D(U2) in Hounsfield units of both tube voltages (U1,U2) were transformed for each voxel to polar coordinates: r (distance to the radiodensity coordinate origin) is an approximate measure of electron density and φ (angle to the abscissa) differentiates between materials.

Source: Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography - January 1, 2015 Category: Radiology Tags: Technical Developments Source Type: research