An Image-Based Reduction of Metal Artifacts in Computed Tomography

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Objective: Various strategies have been developed in the past to reduce the excessive effects of metal artifacts in computed tomography images. From straightforward sinogram inpainting-based methods to computationally expensive iterative methods, all have been successful in improving the image quality up to a certain degree. We propose a novel image-based metal artifact subtraction method that achieves a superior image quality and at the same time provides a quantitatively more accurate image. Methods: Our proposed method consists of prior image-based sinogram inpainting, metal sinogram extraction, and metal artifact image subtraction. Reconstructing the metal images from the extracted metal-contaminated portions in the sinogram yields a streaky image that eventually can be subtracted from the uncorrected image. The prior image is reconstructed from the sinogram that is free from the metal-contaminated portions by use of a total variation (TV) minimization algorithm, and the reconstructed prior image is fed into the forward projector so that the missing portions in the sinogram can be recovered. Image quality of the metal artifact reduced images on selected areas was assessed by the structure similarity index for the simulated data and SD for the real dental data. Results: Simulation phantom studies showed higher structure similarity index values for the proposed metal artifact reduction (MAR) images than the standard MAR images. Thus, more artifact suppression was observed in proposed MAR images. In real dental phantom data study, lower SD values were calculated from the proposed MAR images. The findings in real human arm study were also consistent with the results in all phantom studies. Thus, compared with standard MAR images, lesser artifact intensity was exhibited by the proposed MAR images. Conclusions: From the quantitative calculations, our proposed method has shown to be effective and superior to the conventional approach in both simulation and real dental phantom cases.
Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
Issue Date
2016-01
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

CT; RECONSTRUCTION; SUPPRESSION; SEGMENTATION; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; GPUS

Citation

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY, v.40, no.1, pp.131 - 141

ISSN
0363-8715
DOI
10.1097/RCT.0000000000000316
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/209852
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