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Artifacts associated with implementation of the Grangeat formula Seung Wook Leea) CT/Micro-CT Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 and Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, South Korea Gyuseong Cho Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, South Korea Ge Wangb) CT/Micro-CT Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 Received 29 April 2002; accepted for publication 30 September 2002; published 27 November 2002 To compensate for image artifacts introduced in approximate cone-beam reconstruction, exact cone-beam reconstruction algorithms are being developed for medical x-ray CT. Although the exact cone-beam approach is theoretically error-free, it is subject to image artifacts due to the discrete nature of numerical implementation. We report a study on image artifacts associated with the Grangeat algorithm as applied to a circular scanning locus. Three types of artifacts are found, which are thorn, wrinkle, and V-shaped artifacts. The thorn pattern is created by inappropriate extrapola- tion into the shadow zone in the radon domain. If the shadow zone is filled in with continuous data, the thorn artifacts along the boundary of the shadow zone can be removed. The wrinkle appearance arises if interpolated first derivatives of the radon data are not smooth between adjacent detector planes. In particular, the nearest-neighbor interpolation method should not be used. If the number of projections is not small, the bilinear interpolation method is effective to suppress the w