A stationary computed tomography system with cylindrically distributed sources and detectors
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A Basic Positron Emission Tomography System Constructed to Locate a Radioactive Source in a Bi-dimensional Space
Published on: February 1, 2016
1School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Background:
The temporal resolution of current computed tomography (CT) systems is limited by the rotation speed of their gantries.
Objective:
A helical interlaced source detector array (HISDA) CT, which is a stationary CT system with distributed X-ray sources and detectors, is presented in this paper to overcome the aforementioned limitation and achieve high temporal resolution.
Methods:
Projection data can be obtained from different angles in a short time and do not require source, detector, or object motion. Axial coverage speed is increased further by employing a parallel scan scheme. Interpolation is employed to approximate the missing data in the gaps, and then a Katsevich-type reconstruction algorithm is applied to enable an approximate reconstruction.
Results:
The proposed algorithm suppressed the cone beam and gap-induced artifacts in HISDA CT. The results also suggest that gap-induced artifacts can be reduced by employing a large helical pitch for a fixed gap height.
Conclusions:
HISDA CT is a promising 3D dynamic imaging architecture given its good temporal resolution and stationary advantage.
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