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Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an important tool facilitating computer aided interventions, despite often suffering from artifacts that pose challenges for accurate interpretation. While the degraded image quality can affect…

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X-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans raises a clinical concern in most image guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this paper to develop a fast GPU-based algorithm to reconstruct high quality CBCT images…

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Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is an imaging modality widely used in head and neck diagnostics due to its accessibility and lower radiation dose. However, its relatively long acquisition times make it susceptible to patient motion,…

The purpose of this work is to provide a fast and accurate scatter artifacts correction algorithm for cone beam CT (CBCT) imaging. The method starts with an estimation of coarse scatter profiles for a set of CBCT data in either image domain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Wei Zhao , Don Vernekohl , Jun Zhu , Luyao Wang , Lei Xing

The synthesis of computed tomography (CT) from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays a critical role in clinical treatment planning by enabling accurate anatomical representation in adaptive radiotherapy. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Siyuan Mei , Yan Xia , Fuxin Fan , Andreas Maier

Cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been widely used in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to acquire updated volumetric anatomical information before treatment fractions for accurate patient alignment purpose. However, the excessive x-ray imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , John Lewis , Ruijiang Li , Xuejun Gu , Chunhua Men , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Deep learning based approaches have been used to improve image quality in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), a medical imaging technique often used in applications such as image-guided radiation therapy, implant dentistry or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Mohammadreza Amirian , Daniel Barco , Ivo Herzig , Frank-Peter Schilling

Background: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) plays a crucial role in image-guided radiotherapy, but artifacts and noise make them unsuitable for accurate dose calculation. Artificial intelligence methods have shown promise in enhancing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Shi Yin , Hongqi Tan , Li Ming Chong , Haofeng Liu , Hui Liu , Kang Hao Lee , Jeffrey Kit Loong Tuan , Dean Ho , Yueming Jin

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) systems, with their flexibility, present a promising avenue for direct point-of-care medical imaging, particularly in critical scenarios such as acute stroke assessment. However, the integration of CBCT…

We provide a fast and accurate scatter artifacts correction algorithm for cone beam CT (CBCT) imaging. The method starts with an estimation of coarse scatter profile for a set of CBCT images. A total-variation denoising algorithm designed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Wei Zhao , Jun Zhu , Luyao Wang

Purpose: There is increasing interest in computed tomography (CT) image estimations from magnetic resonance (MR) images. The estimated CT images can be utilised for attenuation correction, patient positioning, and dose planning in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-02 Fekadu L. Bayisa , Xijia Liu , Anders Garpebring , Jun Yu

In interventional radiology, Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is a helpful imaging modality that provides guidance to practicians during minimally invasive procedures. CBCT differs from traditional Computed Tomography (CT) due to its…

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Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT)-guided puncture has become an established approach for diagnosing and treating early- to mid-stage thoracic tumours, yet the associated radiation exposure substantially elevates the risk of secondary…

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Medical imaging is vital in computer assisted intervention. Particularly cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) with defacto real time and mobility capabilities plays an important role. However, CBCT images often suffer from artifacts, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

High quality reconstruction with interventional C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) requires exact geometry information. If the geometry information is corrupted, e. g., by unexpected patient or system movement, the measured signal…

Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) was developed based on Image-guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) and it is the trend of photon radiation therapy. To get a better use of Cone Beam CT (CBCT) images for ART, the CBCT system model was established…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 Yu Wang , Chaobin Chen , Ruifen Cao , Liqin Hu , Bingbing Li

Diffusion models have been demonstrated as powerful deep learning tools for image generation in CT reconstruction and restoration. Recently, diffusion posterior sampling, where a score-based diffusion prior is combined with a likelihood…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shudong Li , Xiao Jiang , Matthew Tivnan , Grace J. Gang , Yuan Shen , J. Webster Stayman

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used non-invasive medical imaging technique for disease diagnosis. The diagnostic accuracy is often affected by image resolution, which can be insufficient in practice. For medical CT images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jiayang Shi , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been widely used in medical imaging and industrial nondestructive testing, but the presence of scattered radiation will cause significant reduction of image quality. In this article, a robust scatter…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Kuidong Huang , Zhe Xu , Dinghua Zhang , Hua Zhang , Wenlong Shi