Abstract:
Spectral computed tomography (CT) based on photon-counting detectors, has great potential in material decomposition, tissue characterization, lesion detection, and other applications. During the reconstruction, the increase of the number of channels will reduce the photon number in a single channel, resulting in the decline of the quality of the reconstructed image, which is difficult to meet the actual needs. To improve the quality of image reconstruction, joint multi-channel total generalized variational based on the unclear norm for spectral CT reconstruction was proposed in this paper. The algorithm will extend total generalized variation to the vector, and the sparsity of singular values is used to promote the linear dependence of the image gradient. The structural information of the multi-channel image is shared during the image reconstruction process while unique differences are preserved. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively recover image details and marginal information while suppressing noise.