Title
Quantitative Analysis of Metal Artifacts in X-ray Tomography
Abstract
In an X-ray CT scan with metallic objects, it is known that direct application of the filtered back-projection formula leads to streaking artifacts in the reconstruction. These are characterized mathematically in terms of wave front sets in [Park, Choi, and Seo, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 2017]. In this work, we give a quantitative microlocal analysis of such artifacts. We consider metal regions with strictly convex smooth boundaries and show that the streaking artifacts are conormal distributions to straight lines tangential to at least two boundary curves. For metal regions with piecewise smooth boundaries, we analyze the streaking artifacts especially due to the corner points. Finally, we study the reduction of the artifacts using appropriate filters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1137/17M1160392
SIAM JOURNAL ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
metal artifacts,x-ray tomography,quantitative analysis
Wavefront,X-ray,Mathematical analysis,Tomography,Convex function,Computed tomography,Streaking,Piecewise,Mathematics,Microlocal analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
5
0036-1410
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Palacios140.94
Gunther Uhlmann24711.98
Yiran Wang3627.68