Method and system for substantially reducing artifacts in circular cone beam computer tomography (CT)

摘要

Cone beam artifacts arise in circular CT reconstruction. The cone beam artifacts are substantially removed by reconstructing a reference image from measured data at circular source trajectory, generating synthetic data by forward projection of the reference image along a pre-determined source trajectory, which supplements the circular source trajectory to a theoretically complete trajectory, reconstructing a correction image from the synthetic data and substantially reducing the cone beam artifacts by generating a corrected image using the reference image and the correction image.