codes for the paper Yong Long and J. A. Fessler. Multi-material decomposition using statistical image reconstruction for spectral CT. IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 33(8):1614-26, Aug. 2014. The codes need to be used with MIRT (http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/code/) mmd_pl_decom.m: the proposed PL method mmd_true_object.m: generating the modified NCAT phantom in the paper