GPU-based Fast Cone Beam CT Reconstruction from Undersampled and Noisy Projection Data via Total Variation

Details GPU-based Fast Cone Beam CT Reconstruction from Undersampled and Noisy Projection Data via Total Variation GPU-based Fast Cone Beam CT Reconstruction from Undersampled and Noisy Projection Data via Total Variation

2010-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/1002.3675v2

Medical Physics 37 1757-1760 (2010)

Physics

Medical Physics

Accepted as a letter in Med. Phys., brief clarifying comments and updated references. 6 pages and 2 figures

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Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who are essentially excluded from receiving IGRT for this reason. The goal of this work is to develop a fast GPU-based algorithm to reconstruct CBCT from undersampled and noisy projection data so as to lower the imaging dose. Methods: The CBCT is reconstructed by minimizing an energy functional consisting of a data fidelity term and a total variation regularization term. We developed a GPU-friendly version of the forward-backward splitting algorithm to solve this model. A multi-grid technique is also employed. Results: It is found that 20~40 x-ray projections are sufficient to reconstruct images with satisfactory quality for IGRT. The reconstruction time ranges from 77 to 130 sec on a NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU card, depending on the number of projections used, which is estimated about 100 times faster than similar iterative reconstruction approaches. Moreover, phantom studies indicate that our algorithm enables the CBCT to be reconstructed under a scanning protocol with as low as 0.1 mAs/projection. Comparing with currently widely used full-fan head and neck scanning protocol of ~360 projections with 0.4 mAs/projection, it is estimated that an overall 36~72 times dose reduction has been achieved in our fast CBCT reconstruction algorithm. Conclusions: This work indicates that the developed GPU-based CBCT reconstruction algorithm is capable of lowering imaging dose considerably. The high computation efficiency in this algorithm makes the iterative CBCT reconstruction approach applicable in real clinical environments.

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