This thesis focuses on the use and optimization of spectral x-ray imaging methods based on energy-discriminating photon-counting detectors in medical and material-scientific applications. Photon-counting detectors offer improvements over conventional detectors by added energy discrimination capabilities, absence of dark current and a dynamic range down to zero photons. To assist the development of novel image processing algorithms required by such systems, a simulation framework for photon-counting detectors was designed and implemented. A method to reduce the extensive calibration efforts required by today’s spectral imaging approaches was developed offering a projection-based
estimator for material decomposition based on a semi-empirical model of registered detector signals.
Experimental measurements verified the quantitative accuracy of the proposed methods to lie within
a few percent of the theoretical values and show some preliminary applications of projection-based
material decomposition in material science micro-CT.
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This thesis focuses on the use and optimization of spectral x-ray imaging methods based on energy-discriminating photon-counting detectors in medical and material-scientific applications. Photon-counting detectors offer improvements over conventional detectors by added energy discrimination capabilities, absence of dark current and a dynamic range down to zero photons. To assist the development of novel image processing algorithms required by such systems, a simulation framework for photon-count...
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