Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Brody DeSilva

Jiahua Fan

Yirong Yang

Carrigan Hudgins

Methods and systems are provided for reconstructing images within a photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) system. In an example, a method comprises, during a scan of an imaging subject, obtaining photon counts from a detector element of a photon-counting detector of the PCCT system, the photon counts partitioned into a plurality of energy bins based on an energy imparted by each photon on the detector element; encoding the photon counts at the plurality of energy bins of the detector element into a single scalar output value, the single scalar output value representing a distribution of spectral information across the energy bins; and reconstructing an image from projection data acquired via the photon-counting detector, the projection data including the single scalar output value generated at the detector element; wherein a basis material decomposition process is not performed during image reconstruction.

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Brody DeSilva