An Iterative Reconstruction Method for Dental Cone-Beam Computed Tomography with a Truncated Field of View

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07618v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 04:54:18 GMT
• Title: An Iterative Reconstruction Method for Dental Cone-Beam Computed Tomography with a Truncated Field of View
• Authors: Hyoung Suk Park, Kiwan Jeon,
• Abstract summary: In dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), compact and cost-effective system designs often use small detectors.<n>In iterative reconstruction approaches, the discrepancy between the actual projection and the forward projection within the truncated FOV accumulates over iterations.<n>We propose a two-stage approach to mitigate truncation artifacts in dental CBCT.
• Score: 0.08928976797184517
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), compact and cost-effective system designs often use small detectors, resulting in a truncated field of view (FOV) that does not fully encompass the patient's head. In iterative reconstruction approaches, the discrepancy between the actual projection and the forward projection within the truncated FOV accumulates over iterations, leading to significant degradation in the reconstructed image quality. In this study, we propose a two-stage approach to mitigate truncation artifacts in dental CBCT. In the first stage, we employ Implicit Neural Representation (INR), leveraging its superior representation power, to generate a prior image over an extended region so that its forward projection fully covers the patient's head. To reduce computational and memory burdens, INR reconstruction is performed with a coarse voxel size. The forward projection of this prior image is then used to estimate the discrepancy due to truncated FOV in the measured projection data. In the second stage, the discrepancy-corrected projection data is utilized in a conventional iterative reconstruction process within the truncated region. Our numerical results demonstrate that the proposed two-grid approach effectively suppresses truncation artifacts, leading to improved CBCT image quality.

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