Effects of slice thickness filter in filtered backprojection reconstruction with the parallel breast tomosynthesis imaging configuration

Digital breast tomosynthesis is a novel breast cancer detection technique by allowing the reconstruction of arbitrary planes in the breast from a set of limited-angle projection images acquired at different view angles with a particular tube geometry setup. In this paper, filtered backprojection (FBP) was optimized as the reconstruction method with a parallel imaging breast tomosynthesis system. The slice thickness filter (profile filter) with task-adapted parameters was applied to computer simulated data, in order to investigate the main effects of this kind of filter regarding spatial resolution and artifacts in the reconstructed results.

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