Biomedical Imaging Division, VT / WFU SBES
Posts tagged Cardiac CT
Lu Y, Katsevich A, Zhao J, Yu H, Wang G: Fast exact/quasi-exact FBP algorithms for triple-source helical cone-beam CT. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 29:756-770, 2010
03 years ago
Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has been improved over past years, but it still needs improvement for higher temporal resolution in the cases of high or irregular cardiac rates. Given successful applications of dual-source cardiac CT scanners, triple-source cone-beam CT seems a promising mode for cardiac CT. In this paper, we propose two filtered-backprojection algorithms for triple-source helical cone-beam CT. The first algorithm utilizes two families of filtering lines. These lines are parallel to the tangent of the scanning trajectory and the so-called L lines. The second algorithm utilizes two families of filtering lines tangent to the boundaries of the Zhao window and L lines, respectively, but it eliminates the filtering paths along the tangent of the scanning trajectory, thus reducing the required detector size greatly. The first algorithm is theoretically exact for r < 0.265 R and quasi-exact for 0.265 R ≤ r < 0.495 R, and the second algorithm is quasi-exact for r < 0.495 R, where and denote the object radius and the trajectory radius, respectively. Both algorithms are computationally efficient. Numerical results are presented to verify and showcase the proposed algorithms. Click here for full article….
Bharkhada D, Yu HY, Dixon R, Wei YC, Carr JJ, Bourland D, Hogan R, Wang G: Demonstration of dose and scatter reduction for interior tomography. J Comput Assist Tomogr.,33(6):967-72, 2009
03 years ago
With continuing developments in computed tomography (CT) technology and its increasing use of CT imaging, the ionizing radiation dose from CT is becoming a major public concern particularly for high-dose applications such as cardiac imaging. We recently proposed a novel interior tomography approach for x-ray dose reduction that is very different from all the previously proposed methods. Our method only uses the projection data for the rays passing through the desired region of interest. This method not only reduces x-ray dose but scatter as well. In this paper, we quantify the reduction in the amount of x-ray dose and scattered radiation that could be achieved using this method. Results indicate that interior tomography may reduce the x-ray dose by 18% to 58% and scatter to the detectors by 19% to 59% as the FOV is reduced from 50 to 8.6 cm. Click here for full article….
Bharkhada D, Yu H, Shuping G, Carr J, Wang G: Cardiac CT dose reduction using interior reconstruction algorithm with the aorta and vertebra as known information. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 33(3), 338-347, 2009
03 years ago
High x-ray radiation dose is a major public concern with the increasing use of multidetector computed tomography (CT) for diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. This issue must be effectively addressed by dose-reduction techniques. Recently, our group proved that an internal region of interest (ROI) can be exactly reconstructed solely from localized projections if a small subregion within the ROI is known. In this article, we propose to use attenuation values of the blood in aorta and vertebral bone to serve as the known information for localized cardiac CT. First, we describe a novel interior tomography approach that backprojects differential fan-beam or parallel-beam projections to obtain the Hilbert transform and then reconstructs the original image in an ROI using the iterative projection onto convex sets algorithm. Then, we develop a numerical phantom based on clinical cardiac CT images for simulations. Our results demonstrate that it is feasible to use practical prior information and exactly reconstruct cardiovascular structures only from projection data along x-ray paths through the ROI. Click here for full article….