TRACE: Two-Stage Detector-Response Estimation With Angular Cosine Expansion for Ring Artifact Correction in Photon-Counting CT

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15834v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:31:32 GMT
• Title: TRACE: Two-Stage Detector-Response Estimation With Angular Cosine Expansion for Ring Artifact Correction in Photon-Counting CT
• Abstract summary: Detector response nonuniformity introduces systematic projection errors and ring artifacts in photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT)<n>We propose TRACE, a two-stage unsupervised sinogram decomposition method for estimating and correcting these response-related errors.<n> Experiments on measured QRM mouse phantom and porcine trotter data show that TRACE suppresses ring artifacts and improves image uniformity while preserving edge sharpness, soft-tissue texture, and trabecular detail.
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• Abstract: Detector response nonuniformity introduces systematic projection errors and ring artifacts in photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT). In measured PCD-CT data, residual stripe amplitudes vary slowly with projection angle, which fixed-bias models cannot adequately capture. We propose TRACE, a two-stage unsupervised sinogram decomposition method for estimating and correcting these response-related errors. TRACE represents stripes as a fixed bias plus low-order discrete cosine transform (DCT) components, using a small number of coefficients to describe angular variations at each detector element. A learnable analysis--synthesis architecture represents the ideal projections, while two-stage optimization separates them from fixed and then dynamic stripes. An angular-gradient soft orthogonality constraint suppresses correlated variations within the shared DCT gradient subspace, reducing the leakage of object structures into the artifact estimate. All parameters are optimized directly on the measured sinogram without paired training data. Experiments on measured QRM mouse phantom and porcine trotter data show that TRACE suppresses ring artifacts and improves image uniformity while preserving edge sharpness, soft-tissue texture, and trabecular detail.

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