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Since 2019, Matheon's application-oriented mathematical research activities are being continued in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence MATH+
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Dennis Jentsch

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  • CH8

    X-ray based anatomy reconstruction with low radiation exposure

    Hon.-Prof. Hans-Christian Hege / Dr. Martin Weiser / Dr.-Ing. Stefan Zachow

    Project heads: Hon.-Prof. Hans-Christian Hege / Dr. Martin Weiser / Dr.-Ing. Stefan Zachow
    Project members: Dennis Jentsch
    Duration: -
    Status: completed
    Located at: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin

    Description

    Medical imaging is essential in diagnostics and surgery planning. For representation of bony structures different imaging modalities are used; the leading methods are X-ray projection (projectional radiography) and CT. Disadvantage of these imaging techniques is the ionization caused by X-rays, particularly in CT, where the dose is 250-500 times higher than in classic X-ray projection. From the clinical perspective therefore one would like to replace CT acquisitions by a few possible X-ray projections. The project deals with the ill-posed inverse problem of 3D reconstruction of bony structures from 2D radiographs. Virtual radiographs are generated from virtual bone structure models; these are compared with clinical patient images and incrementally changed until a sufficiently accurate bone model is found whose virtual projections fit to the measured data. By using a statistical shape model as prior knowledge it is possible to formulate a well-posed optimization problem in a Bayesian setting. Using gradient methods and multilevel/multiresolution methods for both the reconstruction parameters and image data, good computational performance is achieved. Uncertainty quantification techniques can be applied to describe the spatially varying accuracy of the reconstructed model. Finding best X-ray projections (recording directions) minimizing both uncertainty and radiation exposure leads to a design of experiments problem. Two flavors of this design optimization are considered: An all-at-once approach finding the best image acquisition setup before any X-ray projections are performed, and a sequential approach determining the best next projection direction based on the accumulated knowledge gained from the previously taken images.

    http://www.zib.de/projects/x-ray-based-anatomy-reconstruction-low-radiation-exposure

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