Compressed Sensing based Image Reconstruction with Projection Recovery for Limited Angle Cone-Beam CT Imaging.

Abstract

This paper presents a new 3D CT image reconstruction for limited angle C-arm cone-beam CT imaging system based on total-variation (TV) regularized in image domain and L1-penalty in projection domain. This is motivated by the facts that the CT images are sparse in TV setting and their projections are sinusoid-like forms, which are sparse in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. Furthermore, the artifacts in image domain are directional due to limited angle views, so the anisotropic TV is employed. And the reweighted L1penalty in projection domain is adopted to enhance sparsity. Hence, this paper applied the anisotropic TV-norm and reweighted L1-norm sparse techniques to the limited angle Carm CT imaging system to enhance the image quality in both CT image and projection domains. Experimental results also show the efficiency of the proposed method.Clinical Relevance-This new CT reconstruction approach provides high quality images and projections for practicing clinicians.