Image Reconstruction Image reconstruction by using local inverse for full field of view

Abstract

The iterative refinement method (IRM) has been very successfully applied in many different fields for examples the modern quantum chemical calculation and CT image reconstruction. It is proved that the refinement method can create an exact inverse from an approximate inverse with a few iterations. The IRM has been used in CT image reconstruction to lower the radiation dose. The IRM utilize the errors between the original measured data and the recalculated data to correct the reconstructed images. However if it is not smooth inside the object, there often is an over-correction along the boundary of the organs in the reconstructed images. The over-correction increase the noises especially on the edges inside the image. One solution to reduce the above mentioned noises is using some kind of filters. Filtering the noise before/after/between the image reconstruction processing. However filtering the noises also means reduce the resolution of the reconstructed images. The filtered image is often applied to the image automation for examples image segmentation or image registration but diagnosis. For diagnosis, doctor would prefer the original images without filtering process. In the time these authors of this manuscript did the work of interior image reconstruction with local inverse method, they noticed that the local inverse method does not only reduced the truncation artifacts but also reduced the artifacts and noise introduced from filtered back-projection method without truncation. This discovery lead them to develop the sub-regional iterative refinement (SIRM) image reconstruction method. The SIRM did good job to reduce the artifacts and noises in the reconstructed images. The SIRM divide the image to many small sub-regions. To each small sub-region the principle of local inverse method is applied.