Method and apparatus for decomposing low- density material and method and apparatus for obtaining attenuation correction image based on dual-energy technique

Abstract

A dual energy technique based material decomposing method according to the present disclosure includes obtaining intensity change information between a radiographic image of a decomposition material phantom formed of a first material and a second material to be decomposed and a radiographic image of an equivalent material phantom formed of a first equivalent material and a second equivalent material corresponding to the first material and the second material, respectively, using a simulated radiographic imaging system, converting an image intensity of the equivalent material phantom using the intensity change information from a dual energy image, obtaining a material decomposition constant based on the dual energy image with a converted image intensity, and decomposing the first material and the second material from a dual energy image of an object including the first material and the second material using the material decomposition constant.