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Flat-panel conebeam CT in the clinic: history and current state
Research into conebeam CT concepts began as soon as the first clinical single-slice CT scanner was conceived. Early implementations of conebeam CT in the 1980s focused on high-contrast applications where concurrent high resolution ([Formula: see text]), for visualization of small contrast-filled ves...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553266/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34722795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.8.5.052115 |
Sumario: | Research into conebeam CT concepts began as soon as the first clinical single-slice CT scanner was conceived. Early implementations of conebeam CT in the 1980s focused on high-contrast applications where concurrent high resolution ([Formula: see text]), for visualization of small contrast-filled vessels, bones, or teeth, was an imaging requirement that could not be met by the contemporaneous CT scanners. However, the use of nonlinear imagers, e.g., x-ray image intensifiers, limited the clinical utility of the earliest diagnostic conebeam CT systems. The development of consumer-electronics large-area displays provided a technical foundation that was leveraged in the 1990s to first produce large-area digital x-ray detectors for use in radiography and then compact flat panels suitable for high-resolution and high-frame-rate conebeam CT. In this review, we show the concurrent evolution of digital flat panel (DFP) technology and clinical conebeam CT. We give a brief summary of conebeam CT reconstruction, followed by a brief review of the correction approaches for DFP-specific artifacts. The historical development and current status of flat-panel conebeam CT in four clinical areas—breast, fixed C-arm, image-guided radiation therapy, and extremity/head—is presented. Advances in DFP technology over the past two decades have led to improved visualization of high-contrast, high-resolution clinical tasks, and image quality now approaches the soft-tissue contrast resolution that is the standard in clinical CT. Future technical developments in DFPs will enable an even broader range of clinical applications; research in the arena of flat-panel CT shows no signs of slowing down. |
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