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  • Medical Imaging
  • Radiological Physics
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Robotic x-ray systems enable customized cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) trajectories.
  • X-ray scatter and noise degrade image quality in weight-bearing foot and cervical spine CBCT.
  • Optimizing source-detector trajectories is crucial for mitigating these artifacts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To exploit robotic x-ray systems for customized CBCT trajectories.
  • To mitigate X-ray scatter and noise in weight-bearing foot and cervical spine imaging.
  • To investigate the effects of tilted rotation axis scan orbits.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an advanced CBCT simulator with accurate models of X-ray scatter, attenuation, and noise.
  • Employed a modified Feldkamp-Davis-Kress (FDK) algorithm for reconstruction with tilted axis scans.
  • Assessed imaging performance via scatter-to-primary ratio (SPR) and generalized contrast-to-noise ratio (gCNR).

Main Results:

  • An optimized 20° tilted orbit for foot imaging reduced SPR and enhanced metatarsal gCNR twofold.
  • A -35° tilted orbit for C-spine imaging reduced SPR and increased C5-C7 gCNR twofold.
  • Tilted orbits facilitated effective scatter correction with minimal noise increase.

Conclusions:

  • Tilted scan trajectories optimized for CBCT imaging of foot and C-spine.
  • Demonstrated advantages of tilted axis orbits in reducing scatter artifacts.
  • Showcased improved contrast-to-noise ratio in CBCT reconstructions using robotic systems.