Demetrios J. Halazonetis Cone-beam Computed Tomography in Orthodontics: Limitations and future directions.
how CT works major artifacts 3D pictures
how CT works… Godfrey Hounsfield Nobel prize in Medicine, 1979 Allan Cormack
x-ray source detectors
acquisition
reconstruction
Voxels (Volume elements)
≈ 100 million voxels (200 Mb) 400 slices 512 x density:
cone-beam CT (CBCT)
NewTom 9000 / NewTom 3G i-CAT
medical CT CBCT grey color (voxel value) = tissue density
medical CT CBCT grey color (voxel value) = tissue density + artifacts
1.ringing
2.beam hardening high energy
(cupping) 2.beam hardening
3.noise (cupping) 2.beam hardening
2.beam hardening (streaking)
4.partial object effect
5.resolution artifacts: what lies between voxels?
voxel ≈ 0.5 mm interpolation what lies between voxels?
interpolation
6.partial averaging effect what lies within voxels? patience, I am almost done!
partial averaging effect
partial averaging effect
partial averaging effect
partial averaging effect
creating 3D pictures
screen ray casting
transparency threshold
thresholding, iso-surface
transfer function: combination of color & transparency for range of voxels
transfer function:
simple thresholding: single iso-surface transfer function: volumetric object 3D rendering
voxel density distributions voxel density bonesoft tissue
voxel density voxel density distributions bonesoft tissue
overlapping voxel density distributions
NewTom
i-CAT
medical CT
medical CT 120 kV, 100 mAsCBCT 110 kV, 10 mAs grey color (voxel value) = tissue density + artifacts
Acknowledgements Dr. Katsaros and Dr. Stratoudakis (for providing CT data). All CT data rendered by the Viewbox software ( Note:Software and hardware improve at a fast rate and lead to better image quality. The images that were shown may not be representative of the state of the art today.