대한전자공학회논문지SP (Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP)

대한전자공학회 (The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers)
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고정 그리드를 사용한 디지털 방사선 영상에서 1차원 필터에 기초한 왜곡의 제거

Artifact Reduction in Digital Radiography Images with the Stationary Grid Based on 1-Dimensional Filters

  • 김동식 (한국외국어대학교 전자공학과)
  • Kim, Dong-Sik (Department of Electronics Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
  • 투고 : 2010.03.01
  • 발행 : 2010.09.25
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초록

산란선을 흡수하여 보다 선명한 x선 영상을 얻기 위하여 산란방지 그리드를 사용하여 투사영상을 얻는데, 이때 그리드로 인한 왜곡이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 회전된 그리드를 사용하여 투사영상을 얻고 단순한 1차원 저역필터를 영상의 공간영역에서 각 축으로 별도로 적용하여 그리드 왜곡을 효율적으로 제거하는 방법을 제안하고 그 성능을 고찰해 보았다. 제안한 방법은 왜곡 주파수를 별도로 예측할 필요 없이, 회전된 그리드를 사용하여 획득한 영상에 단순한 1차원 필터를 주파수영역이 아닌 공간영역에서 적용하므로 매우 단순하여 쉽게 구현이 가능하며 빠른 계산 속도를 가지는 장점을 가지고 있으면서 그 성능은 주파수영역에서 2차원 필터를 적용한 경우와 유사하다.

In order to obtain more clear x-ray images, an antiscatter grid, which can absorb the scattered rays, is employed. In the high-resolution direct digital radiography, however, the artifacts due to the grid are visible. In this paper, the grid artifacts are reduced by applying simple 1-dimensional low-pass filters in the spatial domain based on the rotated grid. Since the proposed algorithm does not use any detection scheme for the artifact frequencies and discrete Fourier transforms for 2-dimensional filters, it can simply and fast reduce the grid artifacts. The performance using the order 1 average filter is compatible to that of using 2-dimensional filters in the frequency domain.

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