A general exact method for synthesizing parallel-beam projections from cone-beam projections via filtered backprojection
A general exact method for synthesizing parallel-beam projections from cone-beam projections via filtered backprojection
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DOI:
10.1088/0031-9155/51/21/017
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发表时间:
2006-10
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Liang Li;Zhiqiang Chen;Yuxiang Xing;Li Zhang;Kejun Kang;Ge Wang
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作者:
Liang Li;Zhiqiang Chen;Yuxiang Xing;Li Zhang;Kejun Kang;Ge Wang
In recent years, image reconstruction methods for cone-beam computed tomography (CT) have been extensively studied. However, few of these studies discussed computing parallel-beam projections from cone-beam projections. In this paper, we focus on the exact synthesis of complete or incomplete parallel-beam projections from cone-beam projections. First, an extended central slice theorem is described to establish a relationship between the Radon space and the Fourier space. Then, data sufficiency conditions are proposed for computing parallel-beam projection data from cone-beam data. Using these results, a general filtered backprojection algorithm is formulated that can exactly synthesize parallel-beam projection data from cone-beam projection data. As an example, we prove that parallel-beam projections can be exactly synthesized in an angular range in the case of circular cone-beam scanning. Interestingly, this angular range is larger than that derived in the Feldkamp reconstruction framework. Numerical experiments are performed in the circular scanning case to verify our method.