Feldkamp-type VOI reconstruction from super-short-scan cone-beam data

Med Phys. 2004 Jun;31(6):1357-62. doi: 10.1118/1.1739298.

Abstract

Based on the fan-beam reconstruction formula recently developed by Noo et al. [Phys. Med. Biol. 47, 2525-2546 (2002)] we develop a Feldkamp-type algorithm for the reconstruction of a volume of interest (VOI) from super-short-scan data. With either a circular or spiral scanning locus in our VOI reconstruction scheme, we first estimate fan-beam data from cone-beam data using the popular "cosine correction" scheme, and perform reconstruction based on Noo's FBP-type fan-beam reconstruction. Our proposed algorithm is tested using the three-dimensional (3-D) Shepp-Logan phantom. The experimental results show that the new algorithm can be applied to multi-source 4-D CT with significantly superior temporal resolution and temporal consistency relative to the Katsevich algorithm, which is the state of the art for exact helical cone-beam reconstruction.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Biophysical Phenomena
  • Biophysics
  • Humans
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed / statistics & numerical data*