A dual-domain deep learning-based reconstruction method for fully 3D sparse data helical CT.

A dual-domain deep learning-based reconstruction method for fully 3D sparse data helical CT. Phys Med Biol. 2020 May 04;: Authors: Zheng A, Gao H, Zhang L, Xing Y Abstract Helical CT has been widely used in clinical diagnosis. In this work, we focus on a new prototype of helical CT which equipped with sparsely spaced multidetector and multi-slit collimator (MSC) in the axis direction. This kind systems can not only lower radiation dose, suppress scattering by MSC, but also cut down the manufacturing cost of detector. The major problem to overcome for such a system is the insufficient data for reconstruction. Hence, we propose a deep learning-based function optimization method for this ill-posed inverse problem. By incorporating Radon inverse operator and disentangling each slice, we significantly simplify the complexity of our network for 3D reconstruction. The whole network is composed of three subnetworks. First, a convolutional neural network (CNN) in projection domain is constructed to estimate missing projection data and convert helical projection data to 2D fan-beam projection data. Then, an analytical linear operator is followed to transfer the data from projection domain to image domain. Finally, an additional CNN in image domain is added for further image refinement. These three steps work as an entirety and can be trained end to end. The overall network is trained on a simulated CT dataset from 8 patients of American Associ...
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