Self-geometric calibration of circular cone beam CT based on epipolar geometry consistency

Liang Zheng; Shouhua Luo; Lujie Chen; Shuang Luo

doi:10.1117/12.2511127

1 March 2019 Self-geometric calibration of circular cone beam CT based on epipolar geometry consistency

Liang Zheng, Shouhua Luo, Lujie Chen, Shuang Luo

Proceedings Volume 10948, Medical Imaging 2019: Physics of Medical Imaging; 109482J (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2511127
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

For most offline calibration methods, a specific phantom scanning is often required before the following imaging tasks. It’s time-consuming and unable to be applied to the unstable systems. Some online approaches don’t have such drawbacks but their accuracy cannot fulfil requirements compared with the offline ones. This paper proposes an Epipolar geometry consistency based online geometric calibration for cone beam CT(CBCT). Four parameters: the detector skew, rotation axis, mid-plane and the source to detector distance are employed for geometrical modeling of CBCT in this paper. A cost function is built by exploiting the Epipolar geometry consistency among the projective views. By taking advantage of the simplex-simulated annealing algorithm(SIMPSA) algorithm to minimize the cost function, we can obtain the geometric parameters of our practical CBCT systems for image reconstruction. In simulation, different noise levels are added to projection images respectively and the experimental results show that the proposed method is insensitive to noise. What’s more, the accuracies of the parameters of the detector skew and rotation axis is slightly higher than that of the other two. In the practical situation, we scanned a thin bamboo stick and a Chinese parasol tree branch. Compared with the image reconstructed with the geometric parameters calculated by the conventional offline calibration approach, the ones reconstructed with the proposed method show no apparent difference and geometric artifacts, which shows that the accuracy of our method is comparable to that of the offline calibration ones.

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Liang Zheng, Shouhua Luo, Lujie Chen, and Shuang Luo "Self-geometric calibration of circular cone beam CT based on epipolar geometry consistency", Proc. SPIE 10948, Medical Imaging 2019: Physics of Medical Imaging, 109482J (1 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2511127

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Calibration

Sensors

X-ray sources

Image quality

Imaging systems

Metals

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