A cone beam filtered backprojection (CB-FBP) reconstruction algorithm for a circle-plus-two-arc orbit
Abstract
The circle-plus-arc orbit possesses advantages over other "circle-plus" orbits for the application of x-ray cone beam (CB) volume CT in image-guided interventional procedures requiring intraoperative imaging, in which movement of the patient table is to be avoided. A CB circle-plus-two-arc orbit satisfying the data sufficiency condition and a filtered backprojection (FBP) algorithm to reconstruct longitudinally unbounded objects is presented here. In the circle suborbit, the algorithm employs Feldkamp's formula and another FBP implementation. In the arc suborbits, an FBP solution is obtained originating from Grangeat's formula, and the reconstruction computation is significantly reduced using a window function to exclude redundancy in Radon domain. The performance of the algorithm has been thoroughly evaluated through computer-simulated phantoms and preliminarily evaluated through experimental data, revealing that the algorithm can regionally reconstruct longitudinally unbounded objects exactly and efficiently, is insensitive to the variation of the angle sampling interval along the arc suborbits, and is robust over practical x-ray quantum noise. The algorithm's merits include: only 1D filtering is implemented even in a 3D reconstruction, only separable 2D interpolation is required to accomplish the CB backprojection, and the algorithm structure is appropriate for parallel computation.
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