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Kim et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011, 10:106 /content/10/1/106 RESEARCH Open Access Inter-plane artifact suppression in tomosynthesis using 3D CT image data 1 2,3 1 1* Jae G Kim , Seung O Jin , Min H Cho and Soo Y Lee * Correspondence: sylee01@khu.ac. Abstract kr 1Department of Biomedical Background: Despite its superb lateral resolution, flat-panel-detector (FPD) based Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea tomosynthesis suffers from low contrast and inter-plane artifacts caused by Full list of author information is incomplete cancellation of the projection components stemming from outside the available at the end of the article focal plane. The incomplete cancellation of the projection components, mostly due to the limited scan angle in the conventional tomosynthesis scan geometry, often makes the image contrast too low to differentiate the malignant tissues from the background tissues with confidence. Methods: In this paper, we propose a new method to suppress the inter-plane artifacts in FPD-based tomosynthesis. If 3D whole volume CT images are available before the tomosynthesis scan, the CT image data can be incorporated into the tomosynthesis image reconstruction to suppress the inter-plane artifacts, hence, improving the image contrast. In the proposed technique, the projection components stemming from outside the region-of-interest (ROI) are subt