Metal artifact reduction using common dental materials

Hinchy, Nicole V; Anderson, Nina K.; Mahdian, Mina

doi:10.1259/dmfr.20210302

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“…Implants made of different materials have different attenuations to x-rays, so in some real-world clinical scenarios, an appropriate material can be used to replace metal implants to reduce artifacts. Hinchy et al find out that compared with other materials, Blu-Mousse ® and polyvinyl siloxane produce fewer perceived beam hardening and photon starvation artifacts (Hinchy et al 2022). Acquisition improvement means improving the acquisition procedure of CT values.…”

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MARGANVAC: metal artifact reduction method based on generative adversarial network with variable constraints

Li,

Ji,

You

et al. 2023

Phys. Med. Biol.

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Objective. Metal artifact reduction (MAR) has been a key issue in CT imaging. Recently, MAR methods based on deep learning have achieved promising results. However, when deploying deep learning-based MAR in real-world clinical scenarios, two prominent challenges arise. One limitation is the lack of paired training data in real applications, which limits the practicality of supervised methods. Another limitation is that image-domain methods suitable for more application scenarios are inadequate in performance while end-to-end approaches with better performance are only applicable to fan-beam CT due to large memory consumption. Approach. We propose a novel image-domain MAR method based on the generative adversarial network with variable constraints (MARGANVAC) to improve MAR performance. The proposed variable constraint is a kind of time-varying cost function that can relax the fidelity constraint at the beginning and gradually strengthen the fidelity constraint as the training progresses. To better deploy our image-domain supervised method into practical scenarios, we develop a transfer method to mimic the real metal artifacts by first extracting the real metal traces and then adding them to artifact-free images to generate paired training data. Main results. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated in simulated fan-beam experiments and real cone-beam experiments. All quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior performance compared with the competing methods. Significance. The MARGANVAC model proposed in this paper is an image-domain model that can be conveniently applied to various scenarios such as fan beam and cone beam CT. At the same time, its performance is on par with the cutting-edge dual-domain MAR approaches. In addition, the metal artifact transfer method proposed in this paper can easily generate paired data with real artifact features, which can be better used for model training in real scenarios.

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