A filtered backprojection algorithm for cone beam reconstruction using rotational filtering under helical source trajectory英文文献.pdfVIP

A filtered backprojection algorithm for cone beam reconstruction using rotational filtering under helical source trajectory Xiangyang Tanga and Jiang Hsieh Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare Technologies, 3000 N. Grandview Blvd., W-1190, Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188 Received 18 March 2004; revised 17 July 2004; accepted for publication 16 August 2004; published 19 October 2004 With the evolution from multi-detector-row CT to cone beam CB volumetric CT, maintaining reconstruction accuracy becomes more challenging. To combat the severe artifacts caused by a large cone angle in CB volumetric CT, three-dimensional reconstruction algorithms have to be utilized. In practice, filtered backprojection FBP reconstruction algorithms are more desirable due to their computational structure and image generation efficiency. One of the CB-FBP reconstruction algo- rithms is the well-known FDK algorithm that was originally derived for a circular x-ray source trajectory by heuristically extending its two-dimensional 2-D counterpart. Later on, a general CB-FBP reconstruction algorithm was derived for noncircular, such as helical, source trajectories. It has been recognized that a filtering operation in the projection data along the tangential direction of a helical x-ray source trajectory can significantly improve the reconstruction accuracy of helical CB volumetric CT. However, the tangential filtering encounters latitudinal data truncation, resulting in degraded noise characteristics or data manipulation inefficiency. A CB-FBP reconstruction algo- rithm using one-dimensional rotational filtering across detector rows namely CB-RFBP is pro- posed in this paper. Although the proposed CB-RFBP reconstruction algorithm is approxim