A cone beam tomography algorithm for orthogonal circle and line orbit英文文献.pdfVIP

Phys. Med. B i d , 1992, Vol. 37, N o 3 , 563-571. Printed in the UK A cone-beam tomography algorithm for orthogonal circle-and-line orbit Gengsheng L Zeng and Grant T Gullberg Department of Radiology, Medical Imaging Research Laboratory, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA Received 24 October 1991 Abstract. A cone-beam algorithm which provides a practical implementation of B D Smiths cane-beam inversion formula is presented. For a cone-beam vertex orbit consisting of a circle and an orthogonal line. This geometry is easy to implement in a s p ~ c ~ s y s t e mand, it satisfies the cone-beam data sufficiency condition. The proposed algorithm is i n the form of a convolution-back projection, and requires a pre-filtering procedure. Computer rimula- lions show a reduction of the artifacts that are found with the Feldkamp algorithm where the cone-beam vertex orbit is a circle. 1. Introduction Single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) with a cone-beam collimator has been under investigation for several years (Jaszczak et a/ 1986, 1988, Floyd el al 1986). The main advantage of using a cone-beam collimator is a gain in sensitivity and resolution over images formed using standard parallel-hole or fan-beam col- limators. Comparisons of cone-beam, parallel-hole and fan-beam collimators for brain and heart imaging have been reported by Jaszczak et U / (1988), Hahn et a / (1988), Gullberg et a/ (1990, 1991) and Terry et a/ (1991). Cone-beam tomography also finds applications in x-ray imaging. In cone