Fully truncated cone-beam reconstruction on Pi lines using prior CT

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2005;8(Pt 1):631-8. doi: 10.1007/11566465_78.

Abstract

C-arms are well suited for obtaining cone-beam projections intra-operatively. Due to the compact size of the detector used, the data are usually truncated within the field of view. As a result, direct application of a standard cone-beam reconstruction algorithm gives rise to undesirable artifacts and incorrect values in the reconstructed image volume. When prior information such as a pre-operative CT scan is available, fully truncated cone-beam projections can be used to recover the change within a small region of interest without such artifacts. A method for integrating prior CT is developed using the concept of pi-lines and tested on real flat-panel and simulated cone-beam data.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Artifacts*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Radiographic Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed / instrumentation
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed / methods*