Computed tomography: state-of-the-art advancements in musculoskeletal imaging

HA Ibad, C de Cesar Netto, D Shakoor… - Investigative …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Although musculoskeletal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a dominant role in
characterizing abnormalities, novel computed tomography (CT) techniques have found an …

High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography for bone evaluation in inflammatory rheumatic disease

R Klose-Jensen, JJ Tse, KK Keller, C Barnabe… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
High resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) is a 3-
dimensional imaging modality with superior sensitivity for bone changes and abnormalities …

Rigid and non-rigid motion artifact reduction in X-ray CT using attention module

Y Ko, S Moon, J Baek, H Shim - Medical Image Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Motion artifacts are a major factor that can degrade the diagnostic performance of computed
tomography (CT) images. In particular, the motion artifacts become considerably more …

Gradient-based geometry learning for fan-beam CT reconstruction

M Thies, F Wagner, N Maul, L Folle… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Incorporating computed tomography (CT) reconstruction operators into
differentiable pipelines has proven beneficial in many applications. Such approaches …

Reference-free learning-based similarity metric for motion compensation in cone-beam CT

H Huang, JH Siewerdsen, W Zbijewski… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Purpose. Patient motion artifacts present a prevalent challenge to image quality in
interventional cone-beam CT (CBCT). We propose a novel reference-free similarity metric …

Systematic review on learning-based spectral CT

A Bousse, VSS Kandarpa, S Rit… - … on Radiation and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spectral computed tomography (CT) has recently emerged as an advanced version of
medical CT and significantly improves conventional (single-energy) CT. Spectral CT has two …

Cone‐beam CT for imaging of the head/brain: development and assessment of scanner prototype and reconstruction algorithms

P Wu, A Sisniega, JW Stayman, W Zbijewski… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Our aim was to develop a high‐quality, mobile cone‐beam computed tomography
(CBCT) scanner for point‐of‐care detection and monitoring of low‐contrast, soft‐tissue …

Penalized-likelihood reconstruction with high-fidelity measurement models for high-resolution cone-beam imaging

S Tilley, M Jacobson, Q Cao, M Brehler… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel reconstruction algorithm based on a general cone-beam CT forward
model, which is capable of incorporating the blur and noise correlations that are exhibited in …

Deformable motion compensation for interventional cone-beam CT

S Capostagno, A Sisniega, JW Stayman… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Image-guided therapies in the abdomen and pelvis are often hindered by motion artifacts in
cone-beam CT (CBCT) arising from complex, non-periodic, deformable organ motion during …

Motion correction for separate mandibular and cranial movements in cone beam CT reconstructions

L Birklein, S Niebler, E Schömer, R Brylka… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Patient motions are a repeatedly reported phenomenon in oral and
maxillofacial cone beam CT scans, leading to reconstructions of limited usability. In certain …