Image reconstruction with shift variant filtration and its implication for noise and resolution properties in fan beam computed tomography英文文献.pdfVIP

Image reconstruction with shift-variant filtration and its implication for noise and resolution properties in fan-beam computed tomography Xiaochuan Pana) and Lifeng Yu Department of Radiology, MC2026, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Received 4 June 2002; accepted for publication 6 December 2002; published 26 March 2003 In computed tomography CT, the fan-beam filtered backprojection FFBP algorithm is used widely for image reconstruction. It is known that the FFBP algorithm can significantly amplify data noise and aliasing artifacts in situations where the focal lengths are comparable to or smaller than the size of the field of measurement FOM. In this work, we propose an algorithm that is less susceptible to data noise, aliasing, and other data inconsistencies than is the FFBP algorithm while retaining the favorable resolution properties of the FFBP algorithm. In an attempt to evaluate the noise properties in reconstructed images, we derive analytic expressions for image variances ob- tained by use of the FFBP algorithm and the proposed algorithm. Computer simulation studies are conducted for quantitative evaluation of the spatial resolution and noise properties of images re- constructed by use of the algorithms. Numerical results of these studies confirm the favorable spatial resolution and noise properties of the proposed algorithm and verify the validity of the theoretically predicted image variances. The proposed algorithm and the derived analytic expres- sions for image variances can have practical implications for both estimation and detection/ classification tasks making use of CT images, and they can readily be generalized to other fan-beam geomet