A short scan reconstruction for cone beam CT using shift invariant FBP and equal weighting英文文献.pdfVIP

A short-scan reconstruction for cone-beam CT using shift-invariant FBP and equal weighting Lei Zhua and Sungwon Yoon Electrical Engineering and Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Rebecca Fahrig Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Received 30 October 2006; revised 17 August 2007; accepted for publication 28 August 2007; published 25 October 2007 A 3D reconstruction formula has been derived for a circular cone-beam CB short scan using 1D shift-invariant filtering, CB backprojection, and equal weighting. By first converting the divergent projections to parallel projections, we analyze the circular CB data using the classic central slice theorem. The sampling density in Fourier space is investigated and 1D shift-invariant filtering before backprojection can be used to compensate for the nonuniformity. The final formula consists of a conventional FDK reconstruction and a correction term using differential backprojection and the 1D Hilbert transform in the image domain. On a full scan, the approach reduces to the FDK algorithm, while for a short scan, the CB artifacts are suppressed by the second term. This algo- rithm outperforms the modified FDK algorithm with Parker’s weighting, as illustrated by computer simulations and experimental results. Due to its shift-invariant filtered-backprojection structure, the proposed algorithm is implemented efficiently, and requires a simple adaptation of the FDK algorithm. © 2007 American Association of Physicists in Medicine. DOI: 10.1118/1.2789405 Key words: short scan, cone-beam CT, 3D reconstruction, filtered backprojection, C-arm CT I. INTRODUCTION rithms on