Artifacts suppression in optical CT for gel dosimeters by iterative reconstruction

Abstract

Optical CT has been considered as an important and promising readout method for 3D gel dosimetry. However, tomographic image qualities are often corrupted by artifacts such as streaks and rings, which are induced by projection discontinuities and magnified by FBP reconstruction. These artifacts will surely deteriorate the accuracy and precision of dose measurement. In this paper, we performed a preliminary study on our in-house optical CT scanner using an iterative algorithm instead of the commonly used FBP for image reconstruction. Comparative analysis of the results validates the proposed method in artifacts suppression and image quality improvement when the convergent process is properly controlled.