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Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) using only a few X-ray projection views enables faster scans with lower radiation dose, but the resulting severe under-sampling causes strong artifacts and poor spatial coverage. We address these…
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Industrial X-ray cone-beam CT (XCT) scanners are widely used for scientific imaging and non-destructive characterization. Industrial CBCT scanners use large detectors containing millions of pixels and the subsequent 3D reconstructions can…
Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been widely used in clinical practice, especially in dental clinics, while the radiation dose of X-rays when capturing has been a long concern in CBCT imaging. Several research works have been…
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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…
Poor tissue visualization and quantitative accuracy in CBCT is a major barrier in expanding the role of CBCT imaging from target localization to quantitative treatment monitoring and plan adaptations in radiation therapy sessions. To…
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…
Background: Limited-angle (LA) dual-energy (DE) cone-beam CT (CBCT) is considered as a potential solution to achieve fast and low-dose DE imaging on current CBCT scanners without hardware modification. However, its clinical implementations…
Perfusion imaging is a valuable tool for diagnosing and treatment planning for liver tumours. The time separation technique (TST) has been successfully used for modelling C-arm cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) perfusion data. The…
Computed tomography perfusion (CTP) and magnetic resonance perfusion (MRP) are widely used in acute ischemic stroke assessment and other cerebrovascular conditions to generate quantitative maps of cerebral hemodynamics. While commercial…
This work introduces a new efficient iterative solver for the reconstruction of real-time cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), which is based on the Prior Image Constrained Compressed Sensing (PICCS) regularization and leverages the…
Contemporary interventional imaging lacks the real-time 3D guidance needed for the precise localization of mobile thoracic targets. While Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) provides 3D data, it is often too slow for dynamic motion tracking. Deep learning…
Deep-neural-network-based image reconstruction has demonstrated promising performance in medical imaging for under-sampled and low-dose scenarios. However, it requires large amount of memory and extensive time for the training. It is…