Cone-beam mammo-computed tomography from data along two tilting arcs

Med Phys. 2006 Oct;33(10):3621-33. doi: 10.1118/1.2336510.

Abstract

Over the past several years there has been an increasing interest in cone-beam computed tomography (CT) for breast imaging. In this article, we propose a new scheme for theoretically exact cone-beam mammo-CT and develop a corresponding Katsevich-type reconstruction algorithm. In our scheme, cone-beam scans are performed along two tilting arcs to collect a sufficient amount of information for exact reconstruction. In our algorithm, cone-beam data are filtered in a shift-invariant fashion and then weighted backprojected into the three-dimensional space for the final reconstruction. Our approach has several desirable features, including tolerance of axial data truncation, efficiency in sequential/parallel implementation, and accuracy for quantitative analysis. We also demonstrate the system performance and clinical utility of the proposed technique in numerical simulations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Breast / pathology
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Mammography / methods*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Programming Languages
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
  • Software
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed / methods*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*