Low-dose micro-CT imaging for vascular segmentation and analysis using sparse-view acquisitions
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- Bert Vandeghinste (UGent) , Stefaan Vandenberghe (UGent) , Christian Vanhove (UGent) , Steven Staelens (UGent) and Roel Van Holen (UGent)
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- The aim of this study is to investigate whether reliable and accurate 3D geometrical models of the murine aortic arch can be constructed from sparse-view data in vivo micro-CT acquisitions. This would considerably reduce acquisition time and X-ray dose. In vivo contrast-enhanced micro-CT datasets were reconstructed using a conventional filtered back projection algorithm (FDK), the image space reconstruction algorithm (ISRA) and total variation regularized ISRA (ISRA-TV). The reconstructed images were then semi-automatically segmented. Segmentations of high-and low-dose protocols were compared and evaluated based on voxel classification, 3D model diameters and centerline differences. FDK reconstruction does not lead to accurate segmentation in the case of low-view acquisitions. ISRA manages accurate segmentation with 1024 or more projection views. ISRA-TV needs a minimum of 256 views. These results indicate that accurate vascular models can be obtained from micro-CT scans with 8 times less X-ray dose and acquisition time, as long as regularized iterative reconstruction is used.
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- ALLOWS, ANEURYSM, COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY, RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS, SPECT RECONSTRUCTION, MINIMIZATION, PROJECTION DATA, EM ALGORITHM, BEAM CT, MOUSE MODEL
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4094601
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- Vandeghinste, Bert, et al. “Low-Dose Micro-CT Imaging for Vascular Segmentation and Analysis Using Sparse-View Acquisitions.” PLOS ONE, vol. 8, no. 7, 2013, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068449.
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- Vandeghinste, B., Vandenberghe, S., Vanhove, C., Staelens, S., & Van Holen, R. (2013). Low-dose micro-CT imaging for vascular segmentation and analysis using sparse-view acquisitions. PLOS ONE, 8(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068449
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- Vandeghinste, Bert, Stefaan Vandenberghe, Christian Vanhove, Steven Staelens, and Roel Van Holen. 2013. “Low-Dose Micro-CT Imaging for Vascular Segmentation and Analysis Using Sparse-View Acquisitions.” PLOS ONE 8 (7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068449.
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- Vandeghinste, Bert, Stefaan Vandenberghe, Christian Vanhove, Steven Staelens, and Roel Van Holen. 2013. “Low-Dose Micro-CT Imaging for Vascular Segmentation and Analysis Using Sparse-View Acquisitions.” PLOS ONE 8 (7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068449.
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- 1.Vandeghinste B, Vandenberghe S, Vanhove C, Staelens S, Van Holen R. Low-dose micro-CT imaging for vascular segmentation and analysis using sparse-view acquisitions. PLOS ONE. 2013;8(7).
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- [1]B. Vandeghinste, S. Vandenberghe, C. Vanhove, S. Staelens, and R. Van Holen, “Low-dose micro-CT imaging for vascular segmentation and analysis using sparse-view acquisitions,” PLOS ONE, vol. 8, no. 7, 2013.
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