Cone beam reconstruction using 1D filtering along the projection of M lines英文文献.pdfVIP

INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING INVERSE PROBLEMS Inverse Problems 21 (2005) 1105–1120 doi:10.1088/0266-5611/21/3/019 Cone-beam reconstruction using 1D filtering along the projection of M-lines ´ ´ Jed D Pack and Frederic Noo Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research (UCAIR), Department of Radiology, 729 Arapeen Drive, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA Received 13 January 2005, in final form 23 March 2005 Published 29 April 2005 Online at /IP/21/1105 Abstract In this paper, three exact formulae are derived for cone-beam reconstruction with source positions on a curve or set of curves. For reconstruction at a single point, these formulae all operate by applying a filtration step followed by a backprojection step to cone-beam data. The filtering is performed along a 1D curve which is defined as the intersection of the detector surface with a filtering plane. Two of these formulae allow a flexibility in the choice of the filtering direction. In some cases, this flexibility allows the efficiency of volume reconstruction to be improved. Alternatively, the flexibility can be used to reduce the detector size necessary to avoid truncation artefacts in the reconstruction or to change the noise properties of the reconstruction. 1. Introduction In cone-beam (CB) tomography the usual problem is to reconstruct a three-dimensional density function f from a set of ray integrals given by ∞ 2 D(a, θ)