Ts. Pan et al., REDUCTION OF TRUNCATION ARTIFACTS IN FAN-BEAM TRANSMISSION BY USING PARALLEL BEAM EMISSION DATA, IEEE transactions on nuclear science, 42(4), 1995, pp. 1310-1320
We describe a method which uses the measurement of both photopeak and
Compton scatter energy window images from a parallel beam collimation
to augment the truncated attenuation map reconstruction in a fan beam
transmission system. The method first estimates the body and lung outl
ines from the reconstructed emission data and truncated attenuation ma
p. Based on the outline information, an assigned attenuation map is cr
eated and reprojected to estimate the missed projection data, which ar
e then combined with the truncated projection data for the set of comp
lete data without truncation. Finally, a reconstruction using the comb
ined complete data is performed to obtain the attenuation map with no
truncation. We demonstrate that this method can significantly reduce t
he truncation artifacts in two phantom studies and one patient study.
When some portion of the heart walls stays outside the densely sampled
region (defined as the region of the object that has no truncation in
any projection angle), the attenuation map estimated from this method
can more effectively correct for the attenuation in the emission data
than the truncated attenuation map.