Feldkamp-type VOI reconstruction from super-short-scan cone-beam data

Based on the fan-beam reconstruction formula recently developed by Noo et al. [Phys. Med. Biol. 47, 2525-2546 (2002)] we develop a Feldkamp-type algorithm for the reconstruction of a volume of interest (VOI) from super-short-scan data. With either a circular or spiral scanning locus in our VOI reconstruction scheme, we first estimate fan-beam data from cone-beam data using the popular "cosine correction" scheme, and perform reconstruction based on Noo's FBP-type fan-beam reconstruction. Our proposed algorithm is tested using the three-dimensional (3-D) Shepp-Logan phantom. The experimental results show that the new algorithm can be applied to multi-source 4-D CT with significantly superior temporal resolution and temporal consistency relative to the Katsevich algorithm, which is the state of the art for exact helical cone-beam reconstruction.