Source-detector trajectory optimization in cone-beam computed tomography: a comprehensive review on today's state-of-the-art

S Hatamikia, A Biguri, G Herl, G Kronreif… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging is becoming increasingly important for a
wide range of applications such as image-guided surgery, image-guided radiation therapy …

FleXCT: a flexible X-ray CT scanner with 10 degrees of freedom

BD Samber, J Renders, T Elberfeld, Y Maris… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Laboratory based X-ray micro-CT is a non-destructive testing method that enables three
dimensional visualization and analysis of the internal and external morphology of samples …

Universal orbit design for metal artifact elimination

GJ Gang, JW Stayman - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Metal artifacts are a persistent problem in CT and cone-beam CT. In this work, we
propose to reduce or even eliminate metal artifacts by providing better sampling of data …

Motion correction for robot-based x-ray photon-counting CT at ultrahigh resolution

M Li, J Bohacova, J Uher, W Cong… - Developments in X …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Ultrahigh-resolution CT is highly desirable in many clinical applications, such as cochlear
implantation and coronary stenosis assessment. Despite the wide accessibility to micro-CT …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing pelvic structures in the presence of metal hip prothesis via non-circular CBCT orbits

T Reynolds, Y Ma, T Wang, K Mei, PB Noël… - Proceedings of SPIE …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As the expansion of Cone Beam CT (CBCT) to new interventional procedures continues, the
burdensome challenge of metal artifacts remains. Photon starvation and beam hardening …

Trajectory optimization for sparsely sampled computed tomography

F Bauer - 2022 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
Industrial computed tomography systems usually implement circular or helical trajectories,
which are inherently inefficient since they are applied independently of the inspection task …

[HTML][HTML] Source-detector trajectory optimization for CBCT metal artifact reduction based on PICCS reconstruction

S Hatamikia, A Biguri, G Kronreif, T Russ… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2024 - Elsevier
Precise instrument placement plays a critical role in all interventional procedures, especially
percutaneous procedures such as needle biopsies, to achieve successful tumor targeting …

Fully automatic online geometric calibration for non‐circular cone‐beam CT orbits using fiducials with unknown placement

YQ Ma, T Reynolds, T Ehtiati, C Weiss, K Hong… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background Cone‐beam CT (CBCT) with non‐circular scanning orbits can improve
image quality for 3D intraoperative image guidance. However, geometric calibration of such …

[HTML][HTML] Practical workflow for arbitrary non-circular orbits for CT with clinical robotic C-arms

YQ Ma, GJ Gang, T Reynolds, T Ehtiati, J Li… - Proceedings of SPIE …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Non-circular orbits in cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging are increasingly being studied for
potential benefits in field-of-view, dose reduction, improved image quality, minimal …

DRACO: Differentiable Reconstruction for Arbitrary CBCT Orbits

C Ye, LS Schneider, Y Sun, M Thies, S Mei… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a novel method for reconstructing cone beam computed tomography
(CBCT) images for arbitrary orbits using a differentiable shift-variant filtered backprojection …