High Pitch Helical CT Reconstruction

IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2021 Nov;40(11):3077-3088. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2021.3083210. Epub 2021 Oct 27.

Abstract

To avoid severe limited-view artifacts in reconstructed CT images, current multi-row detector CT (MDCT) scanners with a single x-ray source-detector assembly need to limit table translation speeds such that the pitch p (viz., normalized table translation distance per gantry rotation) is lower than 1.5. When , it remains an open question whether one can reconstruct clinically useful helical CT images without severe artifacts. In this work, we show that a synergistic use of advanced techniques in conventional helical filtered backprojection, compressed sensing, and more recent deep learning methods can be properly integrated to enable accurate reconstruction up to p=4 without significant artifacts for single source MDCT scans.

MeSH terms

  • Artifacts
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*