Application of an M-line-based backprojected filtration algorithm to triple-cone-beam helical CT

To increase the scanning speed of cone-beam CT, a scanning configuration with three pairs of x-ray sources and panel detectors was proposed. In this paper, we apply the M-line-based backprojected filtration algorithm to this scanning configuration and propose a fast implementation for this algorithm. Compared with existing implementations, the advantages of our implementation are as follows: (1) it can directly reconstruct horizontal slices (i.e. the slices perpendicular to the rotation axis), without 3D interpolation; (2) it does not need to calculate the backprojection intervals for any point; (3) it has a high degree of parallelism and is suitable for acceleration on graphic processing units or other parallel systems.