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Iterative reconstruction of a region of interest for transmission tomography Andy Ziegler,a Tim Nielsen, and Michael Grass Philips Research Europe—Hamburg, Röntgenstrasse 24–26, 22315 Hamburg, Germany Received 7 August 2007; revised 24 January 2008; accepted for publication 24 January 2008; published 12 March 2008 It was shown that images reconstructed for transmission tomography with iterative maximum likelihood ML algorithms exhibit a higher signal-to-noise ratio than images reconstructed with filtered back-projection type algorithms. However, a drawback of ML reconstruction in particular and iterative reconstruction in general is the requirement that the reconstructed field of view FOV has to cover the whole volume that contributes to the absorption. In the case of a high resolution reconstruction, this demands a huge number of voxels. This article shows how an iterative ML reconstruction can be limited to a region of interest ROI without losing the advantages of a ML reconstruction. Compared with a full FOV ML reconstruction, the reconstruction speed is mainly increased by reducing the number of voxels which are necessary for a ROI reconstruction. In addition, the speed of convergence is increased. © 2008 American Association of Physicists in Medicine . DOI: 10.1118/1.2870219 Key words: cardiac CT, transmission tomography, maximum likelihood, iterative, region of inter- est I. INTRODUCTION tions, which could be, for example, the difference of the line integrals, or the difference of the number of photons at the Transmission computed tomography CT