Research Article

An Improved Extrapolation Scheme for Truncated CT Data Using 2D Fourier-Based Helgason-Ludwig Consistency Conditions

Table 1

Summary of quantitative evaluation of truncation correction methods for medium truncation (ROI: radius of 95 pixels) and severe truncation (ROI: radius of 60 pixels).

ā€‰Algorithms Head scan 1 Head scan 2
Medium Severe Medium Severe

RMSE Water cylinder extrapolation 123.0 271.6 29.7 114.2
Proposed method 20.1 43.4 29.3 53.3
CC Water cylinder extrapolation 0.987 0.985 0.996 0.984
Proposed method 0.996 0.995 0.997 0.990