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Paper Abstract
Cardiac C-arm computed tomography (CT) imaging using interventional C-arm systems can be
applied in various areas of interventional cardiology ranging from structural heart disease and
electrophysiology interventions to valve procedures in hybrid operating rooms. In contrast to
conventional CT systems, the reconstruction field of view (FOV) of C-arm systems is limited to
a region of interest in cone-beam (along the patient axis) and fan-beam (in the transaxial plane)
direction. Hence, highly X-ray opaque objects (e.g. cables from the interventional setup) outside
the reconstruction field of view, yield streak artifacts in the reconstruction volume. To decrease
the impact of these streaks a cable tracking approach on the 2D projection sequences with subsequent
interpolation is applied. The proposed approach uses the fact that the projected position
of objects outside the reconstruction volume depends strongly on the projection perspective.
By tracking candidate points over multiple projections only objects outside the reconstruction
volume are segmented in the projections. The method is quantitatively evaluated based on 30
simulated CT data sets. The 3D root mean square deviation to a reference image could be
reduced for all cases by an average of 50 % (min 16 %, max 76 %). Image quality improvement
is shown for clinical whole heart data sets acquired on an interventional C-arm system.
Paper Details
Date Published: 19 March 2014
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90330K (19 March 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2043488
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9033:
Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging
Bruce R. Whiting; Christoph Hoeschen, Editor(s)
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90330K (19 March 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2043488
Show Author Affiliations
C. Haase, Philips Healthcare (Germany)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany)
D. Schäfer, Philips Healthcare (Germany)
M. Kim, Univ. of Colorado Denver (United States)
S. J. Chen, Univ. of Colorado Denver (United States)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany)
D. Schäfer, Philips Healthcare (Germany)
M. Kim, Univ. of Colorado Denver (United States)
S. J. Chen, Univ. of Colorado Denver (United States)
J. Carroll M.D., Univ. of Colorado Denver (United States)
P. Eshuis, Philips Healthcare (Netherlands)
O. Dössel, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany)
M. Grass, Philips Healthcare (Germany)
P. Eshuis, Philips Healthcare (Netherlands)
O. Dössel, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany)
M. Grass, Philips Healthcare (Germany)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9033:
Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging
Bruce R. Whiting; Christoph Hoeschen, Editor(s)
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