CT metal artifact reduction using MR image patches

Jonathan S. Nielsen; Jens M. Edmund; Koen Van Leemput

doi:10.1117/12.2293815

9 March 2018 CT metal artifact reduction using MR image patches

Jonathan S. Nielsen, Jens M. Edmund, Koen Van Leemput

Proceedings Volume 10573, Medical Imaging 2018: Physics of Medical Imaging; 105730P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293815
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2018, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Metal implants give rise to metal artifacts in computed tomography (CT) images, which may lead to diagnostic errors and erroneous CT number estimates when the CT is used for radiation therapy planning. Methods for reducing metal artifacts by exploiting the anatomical information provided by coregistered magnetic resonance (MR) images are of great potential value, but remain technically challenging due to the poor contrast between bone and air on the MR image. In this paper, we present a novel MR-based algorithm for automatic CT metal artifact reduction (MAR), referred to as kerMAR. It combines kernel regression on known CT value/MR patch pairs in the uncorrupted patient volume with a forward model of the artifact corrupted values to estimate CT replacement values. In contrast to pseudo-CT generation that builds on multi-patient modelling, the algorithm requires no MR intensity normalisation or atlas registration. Image results for 7 head-and-neck radiation therapy patients with T1-weighted images acquired in the same fixation as the RT planning CT suggest a potential for more complete MAR close to the metal implants than the oMAR algorithm (Philips) used clinically. Our results further show improved performance in air and bone regions as compared to other MR-based MAR algorithms. In addition, we experimented with using kerMAR to define a prior for iterative reconstruction with the maximum likelihood transmission reconstruction algorithm, however with no apparent improvements

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Jonathan S. Nielsen, Jens M. Edmund, and Koen Van Leemput "CT metal artifact reduction using MR image patches", Proc. SPIE 10573, Medical Imaging 2018: Physics of Medical Imaging, 105730P (9 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293815

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