title: Preliminary experimental results on controlled cardiac computed tomography: a phantom study.
abstract: In this paper, we present the preliminary experimental results on controlled cardiac computed tomography (CT), which aims to reduce the motion artifacts by means of controlling the x-ray source rotation speed. An innovative cardiac phantom enables us to perform this experiment without modifying the scanner. It is the first experiment on the cardiac CT with speed controlled x-ray source. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method successfully separates the phantom images at different phases (improve the temporal resolution) through controlling the x-ray speed.
authors.affiliation: VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Ge
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Er-Wei
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Bai
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D009038:Motion; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012399:Rotation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014965:X-Rays
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