A linear programming approach to limited angle 3D reconstruction from DSA projections

Autor: S, Weber, T, Schüle, C, Schnörr, J, Hornegger
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Methods of information in medicine. 43(4)
ISSN: 0026-1270
Popis: We investigate the feasibility of binary-valued 3D tomographic reconstruction using only a small number of projections acquired over a limited range of angles.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.Our approach successfully reconstructs volumetric vessel structures from three projections taken within 90 degrees. The percentage of reconstructed voxels differing from ground truth is below 1%.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