Geometry and energy constrained projection extension

Autor: Kriti Sen Sharma, Qian Wang, Hengyong Yu
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology. 26:757-775
ISSN: 1095-9114
0895-3996
DOI: 10.3233/xst-18383
Popis: Background In clinical computed tomography (CT) applications, when a patient is obese or improperly positioned, the final tomographic scan is often partially truncated. Images directly reconstructed by the conventional reconstruction algorithms suffer from severe cupping and direct current bias artifacts. Moreover, the current methods for projection extension have limitations that preclude incorporation from clinical workflows, such as prohibitive computational time for iterative reconstruction, extra radiation dose, hardware modification, etc.METHOD:In this study, we first established a geometrical constraint and estimated the patient habitus using a modified scout configuration. Then, we established an energy constraint using the integral invariance of fan-beam projections. Two constraints were extracted from the existing CT scan process with minimal modification to the clinical workflows. Finally, we developed a novel dual-constraint based optimization model that can be rapidly solved for projection extrapolation and accurate local reconstruction. Results Both numerical phantom and realistic patient image simulations were performed, and the results confirmed the effectiveness of our proposed approach. Conclusion We establish a dual-constraint-based optimization model and correspondingly develop an accurate extrapolation method for partially truncated projections. The proposed method can be readily integrated into the clinical workflow and efficiently solved by using a one-dimensional optimization algorithm. Moreover, it is robust for noisy cases with various truncations and can be further accelerated by GPU based parallel computing.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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