Micro-CT represents a modality where the quality of CT reconstruction is very high thanks to the acquisition properties. The goal of this paper is to challenge our proposed Mojette discrete reconstruction scheme from real micro-CT data. A first study was done to analyze bone image degradations by lowering the number of projections. A second study analyzes trabecular bone and vessels tree through an animal study. Small vessels are filling trabecular holes with almost the same grey levels as the bone. Therefore vessel detectability that can be achieved from the reconstruction algorithm according to the number of projections is a major issue.

Date Published: 19 March 2014
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90333A (19 March 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2043062

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9033:
Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging
Bruce R. Whiting; Christoph Hoeschen, Editor(s)