Helical cone-beam CT is used widely nowadays because of its rapid scan speed and efficient utilization of x-ray dose. Recently, an exact reconstruction algorithm for helical cone-beam CT was proposed (Zou and Pan 2004a Phys. Med. Biol. 49 941-59). The algorithm is referred to as a backprojection-filtering (BPF) algorithm. This BPF algorithm for a helical cone-beam CT with a flat-panel detector (FPD-HCBCT) requires minimum data within the Tam-Danielsson window and can naturally address the problem of ROI reconstruction from data truncated in both longitudinal and transversal directions. In practical CT systems, detectors are expensive and always take a very important position in the total cost. Hence, we work on an exact reconstruction algorithm for a CT system with a detector of the smallest size, i.e., a curved PI detector fitting the Tam-Danielsson window. The reconstruction algorithm is derived following the framework of the BPF algorithm. Numerical simulations are done to validate our algorithm in this study.
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