Geometrical study on two tilting arcs based exact cone-beam CT for breast imaging

Kai Zeng; Hengyong Yu; Laurie L. Fajardo M.D.; Ge Wang

doi:10.1117/12.678814

7 September 2006 Geometrical study on two tilting arcs based exact cone-beam CT for breast imaging

Kai Zeng, Hengyong Yu, Laurie L. Fajardo M.D., Ge Wang

Proceedings Volume 6318, Developments in X-Ray Tomography V; 63181M (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678814
Event: SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States. Currently, X-ray mammography is the method of choice for screening and diagnosing breast cancer. However, this 2D projective modality is far from perfect; with up to 17% breast cancer going unidentified. Over past several years, there has been an increasing interest in cone-beam CT for breast imaging. However, previous methods utilizing cone-beam CT only produce approximate reconstructions. Following Katsevich's recent work, we propose a new scanning mode and associated exact cone-beam CT method for breast imaging. In our design, cone-beam scans are performed along two tilting arcs for collection of a sufficient amount of data for exact reconstruction. In our Katsevich-type algorithm, conebeam data is filtered in a shift-invariant fashion and then backprojected in 3D for the final reconstruction. This approach has several desirable features. First, it allows data truncation unavoidable in practice. Second, it optimizes image quality for quantitative analysis. Third, it is efficient for sequential/parallel computation. Furthermore, we analyze the reconstruction region and the detection window in detail, which are important for numerical implementation.

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Kai Zeng, Hengyong Yu, Laurie L. Fajardo M.D., and Ge Wang "Geometrical study on two tilting arcs based exact cone-beam CT for breast imaging", Proc. SPIE 6318, Developments in X-Ray Tomography V, 63181M (7 September 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678814

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