IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2026
A Hybrid Sparse Primary Sampling (SPS) Strategy for CBCT.
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Li Alan R, Lyu Qihui M, Jing Shusen, Liu Hengjie, Frank Catherine H, Jiang Lu, Ruan Dan, Sheng Ke
Аннотация
UNLABELLED: Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) image quality is degraded by the increased scatter from the broad beam geometry, while conventional anti-scatter grid (ASG) only provides partial mitigation at the cost of elevated imaging dose.
OBJECTIVE: In this study, we exploit the smooth behavior of the scatter signal with a novel sparse anti-scatter grid to improve the image quality of CBCT.
METHODS: We achieve sparse sampling of the primary beam signal by sparsely inserting individual collimators focusing on the X-ray source into a template in front of the detector. The novel sparse primary sampling (SPS) grid is evaluated via Monte Carlo simulations with a synthetic CT phantom, patient head phantom, and patient pelvis phantom. Image reconstruction based on SPS was formulated as a constrained optimization problem with fidelity terms on the total signal and the sparsely sampled primary signals. Image quality improvement was benchmarked using ideal primary signal reconstructed images, worst-case scatter degraded reconstructed images, and the previously studied 3-D Richardson-Lucy fitting scatter correction method using low count Monte Carlo.
RESULTS: The novel SPS grid and reconstruction method demonstrated recovery of HU values and image resolution with sampling densities under 0.1%.
CONCLUSION: The hybrid hardware-software method supports flexible sampling density and pattern with minimal primary signal loss and image dose increase.
SIGNIFICANCE: A novel SPS grid was introduced, and a successful demonstration in the Monte Carlo study shows the feasibility of significantly improving CBCT image quality for interventional and radiotherapy procedures via the SPS strategy.
OBJECTIVE: In this study, we exploit the smooth behavior of the scatter signal with a novel sparse anti-scatter grid to improve the image quality of CBCT.
METHODS: We achieve sparse sampling of the primary beam signal by sparsely inserting individual collimators focusing on the X-ray source into a template in front of the detector. The novel sparse primary sampling (SPS) grid is evaluated via Monte Carlo simulations with a synthetic CT phantom, patient head phantom, and patient pelvis phantom. Image reconstruction based on SPS was formulated as a constrained optimization problem with fidelity terms on the total signal and the sparsely sampled primary signals. Image quality improvement was benchmarked using ideal primary signal reconstructed images, worst-case scatter degraded reconstructed images, and the previously studied 3-D Richardson-Lucy fitting scatter correction method using low count Monte Carlo.
RESULTS: The novel SPS grid and reconstruction method demonstrated recovery of HU values and image resolution with sampling densities under 0.1%.
CONCLUSION: The hybrid hardware-software method supports flexible sampling density and pattern with minimal primary signal loss and image dose increase.
SIGNIFICANCE: A novel SPS grid was introduced, and a successful demonstration in the Monte Carlo study shows the feasibility of significantly improving CBCT image quality for interventional and radiotherapy procedures via the SPS strategy.