Weighted Total Variation constrained reconstruction for reduction of metal artifact in CT

Yanbo Zhang, Xuanqin Mou, Hao Yan

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Abstract

TV constrained reconstruction could obtain perfect results from incomplete data, and has been applied to reduce metal artifact by assuming that the projection contaminated by metal is missing. In TV constrained reconstruction, the selection of a proper step parameter for TV minimization procedure is a key point. However, this parameter is usually selected empirically, and it is a constant for all pixels in the whole image domain, regardless of the difference of missing projection quantity at different pixels. By analyzing the relationship between the missing projections and pixels position, a Weighted Total Variation (WTV) constrained reconstruction method is proposed to reduce metal artifact in this paper. For WTV constrained method, the parameters are no longer the same, but vary over image domain as the introduced information miss rate. The simulation results show that the proposed method is more effective than current TV constraint to reduce metal artifact. Moreover, WTV constrained method is extended to other incomplete projection problems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIEEE Nuclear Science Symposuim and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2010
Pages2630-2634
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2010 and 17th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-ray and Gamma-ray Detectors, RTSD 2010 - Knoxville, TN, United States
Duration: Oct 30 2010Nov 6 2010

Publication series

NameIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
ISSN (Print)1095-7863

Other

Other2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2010 and 17th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-ray and Gamma-ray Detectors, RTSD 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKnoxville, TN
Period10/30/1011/6/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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