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Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) L1-037

Medical ImagingBone mineral density via two-energy decompositionδ=3 · standardL_DAG = 3.2📋 Stub — not mineable
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Forward model E

Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA): dual energy xray produces the measurement through a 4-node primitive DAG L.xray_source_dual -> L.beer_lambert -> L.two_material_decompose -> int.spatial, with spatially-projected accumulation and photon-shot-noise-limited (Poisson counting). Recovery is posed as a linear inverse problem that inverts the forward operator to estimate the scene-side 2D bone mineral density. Difficulty tier delta=3 with effective condition number kappa_eff~10; calibration-level mismatch (beam_hardening, patient_alignment, fat_fraction_variation) sets the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form imaging equation.

L-DAG

L.xray_source_dual -> L.beer_lambert -> L.two_material_decompose -> int.spatial
L.xray_source_dualL.beer_lambertL.two_material_decomposeint.spatial

Well-posedness W

Existence:
true
Uniqueness:
true
Stability:
conditional
κ:
200

Existence of the recovered 2D bone mineral density is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness holds on the measurement-supported subspace; out-of-support modes are controlled by the declared priors. Stability is moderately conditioned (kappa_eff ~= 10); beam_hardening dominates the stability cliff; patient_alignment and the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Photon-shot-noise-limited (poisson counting) sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor, while mild Tikhonov or analytic inversion is sufficient at the nominal Omega point.

Solvability C

Solver class:
linear-operator + convex optimisation [Dual-Energy-LS] | iterative projection (ADMM / GAP) + optimisation [Iterative-Dual] | linear-operator + deep neural prior [DEXA-Net]
Convergence rate q:
2
Complexity:
O(H * W * log(...)) per iteration; learned variants: O(H W Z * F_theta_cost) per forward pass

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