Extension of the cone-beam CT field-of-view using two short scans with displaced centers of rotation

Belotti, Gabriele; Rit, Simon; Baroni, Guido

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“…This may lead to lateral truncation when scanning the chest and pelvis sites. One can achieve a large field-of -view by joining two small field-of -view images, as demonstrated by Belotti et al 36 and Karius et al 37 for circular trajectories.…”

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Reduction of cone‐beam CT artifacts in a robotic CBCT device using saddle trajectories with integrated infrared tracking

Wei,

Albrecht,

Rit

et al. 2024

Medical Physics

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BackgroundCone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is widely used in many medical fields. However, conventional CBCT circular scans suffer from cone beam (CB) artifacts that limit the quality and reliability of the reconstructed images due to incomplete data.PurposeSaddle trajectories in theory might be able to improve the CBCT image quality by providing a larger region with complete data. Therefore, we investigated the feasibility and performance of saddle trajectory CBCT scans and compared them to circular trajectory scans.MethodsWe performed circular and saddle trajectory scans using a novel robotic CBCT scanner (Mobile ImagingRing (IRm); medPhoton, Salzburg, Austria). For the saddle trajectory, the gantry executed yaw motion up to using motorized wheels driving on the floor. An infrared (IR) tracking device with reflective markers was used for online geometric calibration correction (mainly floor unevenness). All images were reconstructed using penalized least‐squares minimization with the conjugate gradient algorithm from RTK with voxel size. A disk phantom and an Alderson phantom were scanned to assess the image quality. Results were correlated with the local incompleteness value represented by , which was calculated at each voxel as a function of the source trajectory and the voxel's 3D coordinates. We assessed the magnitude of CB artifacts using the full width half maximum (FWHM) of each disk profile in the axial center of the reconstructed images. Spatial resolution was also quantified by the modulation transfer function at 10% (MTF10).ResultsWhen using the saddle trajectory, the region without CB artifacts was increased from 43 to 190 mm in the SI direction compared to the circular trajectory. This region coincided with low values for . When was larger than 0.02, we found there was a linear relationship between the FWHM and . For the saddle, IR tracking allowed the increase of MTF10 from 0.37 to 0.98 lp/mm.ConclusionsWe achieved saddle trajectory CBCT scans with a novel CBCT system combined with IR tracking. The results show that the saddle trajectory provides a larger region with reliable reconstruction compared to the circular trajectory. The proposed method can be used to evaluate other non‐circular trajectories.

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Reduction of cone‐beam CT artifacts in a robotic CBCT device using saddle trajectories with integrated infrared tracking

Wei,

Albrecht,

Rit

et al. 2024

Medical Physics

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“…Note that Niu et al and Park et al 22,23 both reference the capability of this method to correct for beam hardening, which would interfere with Joseph and Spital method. Therefore, we did not apply the bone-specific beam-hardening correction to this dataset, and only used the polynomial approach from Equation (10). Each projection dataset was recon-structed with RTK 25 and having applied Equation (10) in the projection domain, f (x) values obtained from Equation (4) are normalized so that 𝜇 water = 1 and scaled to HU by applying:…”

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“…Previous works suggested that multiple scans could also be combined to virtually increase the system's lateral angle 7 or achieve sufficient data for short (less than 360

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) scan 8 reconstruction 9 . A case study of FOV extension in a limited range of motion 10 is the robotic CBCT scanner currently in use at the CNAO (Figure 2). This scanner offers a displaced center of rotation (DCoR) geometry 11 by decoupling the robotic end‐effector (tooltip T) from the imaging isocenter I.…”

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Extension of the cone‐beam CT field‐of‐view using two complementary short scans

Belotti,

Fattori,

Baroni

et al. 2023

Medical Physics

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BackgroundRobotic C‐arm cone‐beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanners provide fast in‐room imaging in radiotherapy. Their mobility extends beyond performing a gantry rotation, but they might encounter obstructions to their motion which limit the gantry angle range. The axial field‐of‐view (FOV) of a reconstructed CBCT image depends on the acquisition geometry. When imaging a large anatomical location, such as the thorax, abdomen, or pelvis, a centered cone beam might be insufficient to acquire untruncated projection images. Some CBCT scanners can laterally displace their detector and collimate the beam to increase the FOV, but the gantry must then perform a 360° rotation to provide complete data for reconstruction.PurposeTo extend the FOV of a CBCT image with a single short scan (gantry angle range of fan angle) using two complementary short scans.MethodsWe defined an acquisition protocol using two short scans during which the source follows the same trajectory and where the detector has equal and opposite tilt and/or offset between the two scans, which we refer to as complementary scans. We created virtual acquisitions using a Monte Carlo simulator on a digital anthropomorphic phantom and on a computed tomography (CT) scan of a patient abdomen. For our proposed method, each simulation produced two complementary sets of projections, which were weighted for redundancies and used to reconstruct one CBCT image. We compared the resulting images to the ground truth phantoms and simulations of conventional scans.ResultsReconstruction artifacts were slightly more prominent in the complementary scans w.r.t. a complete scan with untruncated projections but matched those in a single short scan without truncation. When analyzing reconstructed scans from simulated projections with scatter and corrected with prior CT information, we found a global agreement between complementary and conventional scan approaches.ConclusionsWhen dealing with a limited range of motion of the gantry of a CBCT scanner, two complementary short scans are a technically valid alternative to a full 360° scan with equal FOV. This approach enables FOV extension without collisions or hardware upgrades.

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Extension of the cone-beam CT field-of-view using two short scans with displaced centers of rotation

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Reduction of cone‐beam CT artifacts in a robotic CBCT device using saddle trajectories with integrated infrared tracking

Reduction of cone‐beam CT artifacts in a robotic CBCT device using saddle trajectories with integrated infrared tracking

Extension of the cone‐beam CT field‐of‐view using two complementary short scans

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