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4D computed tomography (4D-CT) is an important modality in medical imaging due to its ability to resolve patient anatomy motion in each respiratory phase. Conventionally 4D-CT is accomplished by performing the reconstruction for each phase independently as in a CT reconstruction problem. We propose a new 4D-CT reconstruction algorithm that explicitly takes into account the temporal regularization in a non-local fashion. By imposing a regularization of a temporal non-local means (TNLM) form, 4D-CT images at all phases can be reconstructed simultaneously based on extremely under-sampled x-ray projections. Our algorithm is validated in one digital NCAT thorax phantom and two real patient cases. It is found that our TNLM algorithm is capable of reconstructing the 4D-CT images with great accuracy. The experiments also show that our approach outperforms standard 4D-CT reconstruction methods with spatial regularization of total variation or tight frames.
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- Filter Back Projection
- Tight Frame
- Ground Truth Image
- Temporal Regularization
- Filter Back Projection Algorithm
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Jia, X., Lou, Y., Dong, B., Tian, Z., Jiang, S. (2010). 4D Computed Tomography Reconstruction from Few-Projection Data via Temporal Non-local Regularization. In: Jiang, T., Navab, N., Pluim, J.P.W., Viergever, M.A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010. MICCAI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_18
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