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Paper Abstract
Multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) allows high-edge-response imaging in z-direction by thinner
slice compared with the conventional single-detector row CT (SDCT). The edge response in x- and y-direction is,
however, basically depending on the reconstruction function or the image processing. In this work, a method of
enhancing the edge response in x- and y-direction, without special image processing, is proposed. In this method,
projection data of a patient is acquired by high-spatial-frequency sampling, and an edge-enhanced image is
reconstructed with same matrix size as a conventional image by averaging the projection data. Edge-enhancement
effect in this method employs nonlinearlity of the projection data, and special image processing is not required.
In order to verify this proposed method, a large water phantom that consists of five resinous rods and a small
one that the similitude rate is 1/2, and is topologically the same as the former large phantom, were scanned, and
high-spatial-frequency sampling was simulated. After that, reconstructed images were obtained by averaging
the high-spatial-frequency sampled data and edge gradients for some rods were obtained and estimated. As a
result, although image noise increased slightly, edge gradients are improved 25 to 97 % without special image
processing.
Paper Details
Date Published: 19 March 2007
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6510, Medical Imaging 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging, 65102O (19 March 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.708523
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6510:
Medical Imaging 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging
Jiang Hsieh; Michael J. Flynn, Editor(s)
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6510, Medical Imaging 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging, 65102O (19 March 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.708523
Show Author Affiliations
Yoshie Kodera, Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6510:
Medical Imaging 2007: Physics of Medical Imaging
Jiang Hsieh; Michael J. Flynn, Editor(s)
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