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  • Applied Mathematics

Background:

  • Conventional computed tomography (CT) reconstruction involves a nonlinear preprocessing step that is sensitive to high-density materials, leading to artifacts.
  • This preprocessing step, based on the Beer-Lambert Law, is poorly conditioned near metal implants, degrading image quality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and analyze a direct nonlinear CT reconstruction method that operates on raw measurements.
  • To demonstrate the provable convergence and accuracy of this direct approach, even with limited data.
  • To reduce artifacts, particularly metal artifacts, in CT reconstructions.

Main Methods:

  • Directly reconstructing the signal from raw measurements using the nonlinear forward model.
  • Employing gradient descent optimization, proven to converge geometrically to the global optimum for this nonconvex problem.
  • Incorporating prior structural information via constraints for under-determined signal reconstruction.

Main Results:

  • Provable convergence of gradient descent to the global optimum at a geometric rate.
  • Accurate signal reconstruction with a near-minimal number of measurements.
  • Demonstrated reduction of metal artifacts in cone-beam CT experiments on synthetic and real 3D data, outperforming commercial reconstruction.

Conclusions:

  • Direct nonlinear CT reconstruction offers a more robust and numerically stable alternative to conventional methods.
  • This approach significantly reduces metal artifacts, as demonstrated in cone-beam CT experiments on synthetic and real 3D volumes.
  • The technique shows promise for improving CT imaging in the presence of metallic implants.