A Novel Approach for Reducing of Partial Volume Averaging Artifact in CT Scanner

  • سال انتشار: 1389
  • محل انتشار: هفدهمین کنفرانس مهندسی پزشکی ایران
  • کد COI اختصاصی: ICBME17_108
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 1199
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نویسندگان

Hosein Arabi

Dept. of Radiation Medicine University of Shahid Beheshti Tehran, Iran

Ali Reza Kamali Asl

Dept. of Radiation Medicine University of Shahid Beheshti Tehran, Iran

چکیده

Partial volume averaging is one of the most prevalent artifacts in computed tomography (CT) that threatens the diagnostic interpretation by giving the misleading density of a voxel. This paper proposes a novel approach for reducing of partial volume averaging artifact in CT called dual scan method. The idea behind this work is to acquire two sinograms of the object while detector is slightly shifted in x-axis. Then a computer program simultaneously processes the two sinograms and extracts a new sinogram with double spatial resolution and less partial volume artifact. To evaluate this method, a model based on an actual CT scanner was simulated in GATE Monte Carlo code. An exclusive phantom was designed for investigation of partial volume averaging artifact. The phantom consisted of two materials with densities of 1.2 and 1.6 g/cm3. Because of partial volume averaging artifact the reconstructed image of the phantom revealed the density of 1.4 g/cm3 and also the spatial resolution of the system obtained 0.4 mm. After applying the dual scan method to the CT scanner, not only did the spatial resolution of the system improved to 0.2 mm but also the partial volume averaging artifact decreased up to 50% and density of each materials of the phantom was detected exactly.

کلیدواژه ها

Partial volume averaging artifact; Computed tomography; Monte Carlo simulation

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