Simultaneous misalignment correction for approximate circular cone-beam computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 6267-6289

  Kyriakou, Y ^a   Lapp, R M ^b   Hillebrand, L ^a   Ertel, D ^a   Kalender, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b VAMP GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DETECTORS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAJECTORIES;

CALIBRATION PHANTOMS; CIRCULAR CONES; CIRCULAR PATHS; CIRCULAR SCANS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; CT IMAGES; DATA SETS; DIMENSIONAL SPACES; ENTROPY MINIMIZATIONS; ENTROPY VALUES; FELDKAMP; FIX POINTS; FLAT DETECTORS; GEOMETRICAL INSTABILITIES; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GRAPHICS CARDS; ITERATIVE RESTORATIONS; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATIONS; PRIORI INFORMATIONS; RADIATION THERAPIES; SIMPLEX ALGORITHMS; TOTAL COMPUTATION TIMES;

ENTROPY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALIBRATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149252286     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/22/001     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Atkinson D, Hill D L G, Stoyle P N R, Summers P E and Keevil S F 1997 Automatic correction of motion artifacts in magnetic resonance images using an entropy focus criterion IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 16 903-10
2. Cho Y, Moseley D J, Siewerdsen J H and Jaffray D A 2005 Accurate technique for complete geometric calibration of cone-beam computed tomography systems Med. Phys. 32 968-83
3. Fahrig R, Fox A J, Lownie S and Holdsworth D W 1997 Use of a C-arm system to generate true three-dimensional computed rotational angiograms: preliminary in vitro and in vivo results AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol. 18 1507-14
4. Fahrig R and Holdsworth D W 2000 Three-dimensional computed tomographic reconstruction using a C-arm mounted XRII: image-based correction of gantry motion nonidealities Med. Phys. 27 30-8
5. Fahrig R, Moreau M and Holdsworth D W 1997 Three-dimensional computed tomographic reconstruction using a C-arm mounted XRII: correction of image intensifier distortion Med. Phys. 24 1097-106
6. Feldkamp L, Davis L and Kress J 1984 Practical cone beam algorithm J. Opt. Soc. Am. 1 612-9
7. Frederik M, Andre C, Dirk V, Marchal G and Suetens P 1997 Multimodality image registration by maximization of mutual information IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 16 187-98
8. Galigekere R R, Wiesent K and Holdsworth D W 2003 Cone-beam reprojection using projection-matrices IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 22 1202-14
9. Gullberg G T, Tsui B M, Crawford C R, Ballard J G and Hagius J T 1990 Estimation of geometrical parameters and collimator evaluation for cone beam tomography Med. Phys. 17 264-72
10. Hsieh J 1999 Three-dimensional artifact induced by projection weighting and misalignment IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 18 364-8
11. Jaffray D A and Siewerdsen J H 2000 Cone-beam computed tomography with a flat-panel imager: initial performance characterization Med. Phys. 27 1311-23
12. Jaffray D A, Siewerdsen J H, Wong J W and Martinez A A 2002 Flat-panel cone-beam computed tomography for image-guided radiation therapy Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 53 1337-49
13. Kalender W A 2005 Computed Tomography 2nd edn (New York: Wiley-VCH)
14. Kalender W A and Kyriakou Y 2007 Flat-detector computed tomography (FD-CT) Eur. Rad. 17 2767-79
15. Karolczak M, Schaller S, Engelke K, Lutz A, Taubenreuther U, Wiesent K and Kalender W 2001 Implementation of a cone-beam reconstruction algorithm for the single-circle source orbit with embedded misalignment correction using homogeneous coordinates Med. Phys. 28 2050-69
16. Lagarias J C, Reeds J A, Wright M H and Wright P E 1998 Convergence properties of the Nelder-Mead simplex method in low dimensions SIAM J. Optim. 9 112-47
17. Mitschke M and Navab N 2003 Recovering the x-ray projection geometry for three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction with additional sensors: attached camera versus external navigation system Med. Image Anal. 7 65-78
18. Navab N, Bani-Hashemi A R, Mitschke M M, Holdsworth D W, Fahrig R, Fox A J and Graumann R 1996 Dynamic geometrical calibration for 3D cerebral angiography Med. Imaging 1996: Phys. Med. Imaging 2708 361-70
19. Nelder J A and Mead R A 1965 A simplex method for function minimization Comput. J. 7 308-13
20. Noo F, Clackdoyle R, Mennessier C, White T A and Roney T J 2000 Analytic method based on identification of ellipse parameters for scanner calibration in cone-beam tomography Phys. Med. Biol. 45 3489-508
21. Press W H, Flannery B P, Teukolsky S A and Vettering W T 1988 Numerical Recipes in C (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
22. Rouge A, Picard C, Ponchut C and Trousset Y 1993a Geometrical calibration of x-ray imaging chains for three-dimensional reconstruction Comput. Med. Imaging Graph. 17 295-300
23. Rouge A, Picard C, Trousset L, Yves L and Ponchut C 1993b Geometrical calibration for 3D x-ray imaging Proc. SPIE 1897 161-9
24. Sharpe M B, Moseley D J, Purdie T G, Islam M, Siewerdsen J H and Jaffray D A 2006 The stability of mechanical calibration for a kV cone beam computed tomography system integrated with linear accelerator Med. Phys. 33 136-44
25. Siewerdsen J H and Jaffray D A 2000 Optimization of x-ray imaging geometry (with specific application to flat-panel cone-beam computed tomography) Med. Phys. 27 1903-14
26. Siewerdsen J H, Moseley D J, Burch S, Bisland S K, Bogaards A, Wilson B C and Jaffray D A 2005 Volume CT with a flat-panel detector on a mobile, isocentric C-arm: pre-clinical investigation in guidance of minimally invasive surgery Med. Phys. 32 241-54
27. von Smekal L, Kachelriess M, Stepina E and Kalender W A 2004 Geometric misalignment and calibration in cone-beam tomography Med. Phys. 31 3242-66
28. Wiesent K, Barth K, Navab N, Durlak P, Brunner T, Schuetz O and Seissler W 2000 Enhanced 3-D-reconstruction algorithm for C-arm systems suitable for interventional procedures IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 19 391-403
29. Xu F and Mueller K 2007 Real-time 3D computed tomographic reconstruction using commodity graphics hardware Phys. Med. Biol. 52 3405-19