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Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction with a well-registered priori magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image can improve reconstruction results with low-dose CT, because well-registered CT and MRI images have similar structures. However, in clinical settings, the CT image of patients does not always match the priori MRI image because of breathing and movement of patients during CT scanning. To improve the image quality in this case, multi-group datasets expansion is proposed in this paper. In our method, multi-group CT-MRI datasets are formed by expanding CT-MRI datasets. These expanded datasets can also be used by most existing CT-MRI algorithms and improve the reconstructed image quality when the CT image of a patient is not registered with the priori MRI image. In the experiments, we evaluate the performance of the algorithm by using multi-group CT-MRI datasets in several unregistered situations. Experiments show that when the CT and priori MRI images are not registered, the reconstruction results of using multi-group dataset expansion are better than those obtained without using the expansion.
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Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 813716234), the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2010CB834302), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical Engineering Cross Research Funds (Nos. YG2013MS30 and YG2014ZD05)
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Wang, Q., Xi, Y., Chen, Y. et al. CT reconstruction with priori MRI images through multi-group datasets expansion. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 22, 756–762 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-017-1897-2
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Key words
- multi-group datasets expanding
- computed tomography (CT)
- priori magnetic regonance imaging (MRI) images