A metal artifact reduction method for small field of view CT imaging.
Several sinogram inpainting based metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed to reduce metal artifact in CT imaging. The sinogram inpainting method treats metal trace regions as missing data and estimates the missing information. However, a general assumption with these methods is tha...
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doaj-4519d7b196a843f99fcfefa83d9a3aee2021-04-22T04:30:38ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01161e022765610.1371/journal.pone.0227656A metal artifact reduction method for small field of view CT imaging.Seungwon ChoiSeunghyuk MoonJongduk BaekSeveral sinogram inpainting based metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed to reduce metal artifact in CT imaging. The sinogram inpainting method treats metal trace regions as missing data and estimates the missing information. However, a general assumption with these methods is that data truncation does not occur and that all metal objects still reside within the field-of-view (FOV). These assumptions are usually violated when the FOV is smaller than the object. Thus, existing inpainting based MAR methods are not effective. In this paper, we propose a new MAR method to effectively reduce metal artifact in the presence of data truncation. The main principle of the proposed method involves using a newly synthesized sinogram instead of the originally measured sinogram. The initial reconstruction step involves obtaining a small FOV image with the truncation artifact removed. The final step is to conduct sinogram inpainting based MAR methods, i.e., linear and normalized MAR methods, on the synthesized sinogram from the previous step. The proposed method was verified for extended cardiac-torso simulations, clinical data, and experimental data, and its performance was quantitatively compared with those of previous methods (i.e., linear and normalized MAR methods directly applied to the originally measured sinogram data). The effectiveness of the proposed method was further demonstrated by reducing the residual metal artifact that were present in the reconstructed images obtained using the previous method.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227656 |
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A metal artifact reduction method for small field of view CT imaging. |
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A metal artifact reduction method for small field of view CT imaging. |
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A metal artifact reduction method for small field of view CT imaging. |
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Several sinogram inpainting based metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed to reduce metal artifact in CT imaging. The sinogram inpainting method treats metal trace regions as missing data and estimates the missing information. However, a general assumption with these methods is that data truncation does not occur and that all metal objects still reside within the field-of-view (FOV). These assumptions are usually violated when the FOV is smaller than the object. Thus, existing inpainting based MAR methods are not effective. In this paper, we propose a new MAR method to effectively reduce metal artifact in the presence of data truncation. The main principle of the proposed method involves using a newly synthesized sinogram instead of the originally measured sinogram. The initial reconstruction step involves obtaining a small FOV image with the truncation artifact removed. The final step is to conduct sinogram inpainting based MAR methods, i.e., linear and normalized MAR methods, on the synthesized sinogram from the previous step. The proposed method was verified for extended cardiac-torso simulations, clinical data, and experimental data, and its performance was quantitatively compared with those of previous methods (i.e., linear and normalized MAR methods directly applied to the originally measured sinogram data). The effectiveness of the proposed method was further demonstrated by reducing the residual metal artifact that were present in the reconstructed images obtained using the previous method. |
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