KEYWORDS: 3D acquisition, 3D image processing, X-ray imaging, X-rays, 3D image reconstruction, Tomography, Angiography, 3D modeling, Quantitative analysis, Motion models
Percutaneous coronary angioplasty consists in conducting a guidewire carrying a balloon and a stent through
the lesion and deploying the stent by balloon inflation. A stent is a small 3D complex mesh hardly visible in
X-ray images : the control of stent deployment is difficult although it is important to avoid post intervention
complications. In a previous work, we proposed a method to reconstruct 3D stent images from a set of 2D
cone-beam projections acquired in rotational acquisition mode. The process involves a motion compensation
procedure based on the position of two markers located on the guidewire in the 2D radiographic sequence.
Under the hypothesis that the stent and markers motions are identical, the method was shown to generate a
negligible error. If this hypothesis is not fulfilled, a solution could be to use only the images where motion is
weakest, at the detriment of having a limiter number of views. In this paper, we propose a simulation based
study of the impact of a limited number of views in our context. The chain image involved in the acquisition of
X-ray sequences is first modeled to simulate realistic noisy projections of stent animated by a motion close to
cardiac motion. Then, the 3D stent images are reconstructed using the proposed motion compensation method
from gated projections. Two gating strategies are examined to select projection in the sequences. A quantitative
analysis is carried out to assess reconstruction quality as a function of noise and acquisition strategy.
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