Analysis of axial spatial resolution in a variable resolution x-ray cone beam CT (VRX-CBCT) system

Bahram Dahi; Gary S. Keyes; David A. Rendon; Frank A. DiBianca

doi:10.1117/12.773068

19 March 2008 Analysis of axial spatial resolution in a variable resolution x-ray cone beam CT (VRX-CBCT) system

Bahram Dahi, Gary S. Keyes, David A. Rendon, Frank A. DiBianca

Proceedings Volume 6913, Medical Imaging 2008: Physics of Medical Imaging; 69134Y (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.773068
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Variable Resolution X-ray (VRX) technique has been successfully used in a Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) system to increase the spatial resolution of CT images in the transverse plane. This was achieved by tilting the Flat Panel Detector (FPD) to smaller vrx_y angles in a VRX Cone Beam CT (VRX-CBCT) system. In this paper, the effect on the axial spatial resolution of CT images created by the VRX-CBCT system is examined at different vrx_x angles, where vrx_x is the tilting angle of the FPD about its x-axis. An amorphous silicon FPD with a CsI scintillator is coupled with a micro-focus x-ray tube to form a CBCT. The FPD is installed on a rotating frame that allows rotation of up to 90° about x and y axes of the FPD. There is no rotation about the z-axis (i.e. normal to the imaging surface). Tilting the FPD about its x-axis (i.e. decreasing the vrx_x angle) reduces both the width of the line-spread function and the sampling distance by a factor of sin vrx_x, thereby increasing the theoretical detector pre-sampling spatial resolution proportionately. This results in thinner CT slices that in turn help increase the axial spatial resolution of the CT images. An in-house phantom is used to measure the MTF of the reconstructed CT images at different vrx_x angles.

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Bahram Dahi, Gary S. Keyes, David A. Rendon, and Frank A. DiBianca "Analysis of axial spatial resolution in a variable resolution x-ray cone beam CT (VRX-CBCT) system", Proc. SPIE 6913, Medical Imaging 2008: Physics of Medical Imaging, 69134Y (19 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.773068

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