A Linear Programming Approach to Limited Angle 3D Reconstruction from DSA Projections

Autor: J. Hornegger, C. Schnörr, T. Schüle, S. Weber
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Methods of Information in Medicine. 43:320-326
ISSN: 2511-705X
0026-1270
Popis: Summary Objectives: We investigate the feasibility of binary-valued 3D tomographic reconstruction using only a small number of projections acquired over a limited range of angles. Methods: Regularization of this strongly ill-posed problem is achieved by (i) confining the reconstruction to binary vessel/non-vessel decisions, and (ii) by minimizing a global functional involving a smoothness prior. Results: Our approach successfully reconstructs volumetric vessel structures from three projections taken within 90°. The percentage of reconstructed voxels differing from ground truth is below 1%. Conclusion: We demonstrate that for particular applications – like Digital Subtraction Angiography – 3D reconstructions are possible where conventional methods must fail, due to a severely limited imaging geometry. This could play an important role for dose reduction and 3D reconstruction using non-conventional technical setups.
Databáze: OpenAIRE