Simultaneous motion estimation and image reconstruction (SMEIR) for 4D cone-beam CT

Jing Wang; Xuejun Gu

doi:10.1117/12.2042281

19 March 2014 Simultaneous motion estimation and image reconstruction (SMEIR) for 4D cone-beam CT

Jing Wang, Xuejun Gu

Proceedings Volume 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging; 90332N (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042281
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Image reconstruction and motion model estimation in four dimensional cone-beam CT (4D-CBCT) are conventionally handled as two sequential steps. Due to the limited number of projections at each phase, the image quality of 4D-CBCT is degraded by view aliasing artifacts, and the accuracy of subsequent motion modeling is decreased by the inferior 4DCBCT. The objective of this work is to enhance both the image quality of 4D-CBCT and the accuracy of motion model estimation with a novel strategy enabling simultaneous motion estimation and image reconstruction (SMEIR). The proposed SMEIR algorithm consists of two alternating steps: 1) model-based iterative image reconstruction to obtain a motion-compensated primary CBCT (m-pCBCT) and 2) motion model estimation to obtain an optimal set of deformation vector fields (DVFs) between the m-pCBCT and other 4D-CBCT phases. The motion-compensated image reconstruction is based on the simultaneous algebraic reconstruction (SART) technique coupled with total variation minimization. During the forward- and back-projection of SART, measured projections from an entire set of 4D-CBCT are used for reconstruction of the m-pCBCT by utilizing the updated DVF. The DVF is estimated by matching the forward projection of the deformed m-pCBCT and measured projections of other phases of 4D-CBCT. The performance of the SMEIR algorithm is quantitatively evaluated on a 4D NCAT phantom. The SMEIR algorithm improves image reconstruction accuracy of 4D-CBCT and tumor motion trajectory estimation accuracy as compared to conventional sequential 4D-CBCT reconstruction and motion estimation.

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Jing Wang and Xuejun Gu "Simultaneous motion estimation and image reconstruction (SMEIR) for 4D cone-beam CT", Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90332N (19 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042281

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