Exact and approximate algorithms for helical cone-beam CT.

Phys Med Biol

Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Published: July 2004

This paper concerns image reconstruction for helical x-ray transmission tomography (CT) with multi-row detectors. We introduce two approximate cone-beam (CB) filtered-backprojection (FBP) algorithms of the Feldkamp type, obtained by extending to three dimensions (3D) two recently proposed exact FBP algorithms for 2D fan-beam reconstruction. The new algorithms are similar to the standard Feldkamp-type FBP for helical CT. In particular, they can reconstruct each transaxial slice from data acquired along an arbitrary segment of helix, thereby efficiently exploiting the available data. In contrast to the standard Feldkamp-type algorithm, however, the redundancy weight is applied after filtering, allowing a more efficient numerical implementation. To partially alleviate the CB artefacts, which increase with increasing values of the helical pitch, a frequency-mixing method is proposed. This method reconstructs the high frequency components of the image using the longest possible segment of helix, whereas the low frequencies are reconstructed using a minimal, short-scan, segment of helix to minimize CB artefacts. The performance of the algorithms is illustrated using simulated data.

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