METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING CT SYSTEM PARAMETER

• US 20200132612A1
• Filed: 06/27/2017
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen Our New Medical Technologies Development Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen Our New Medical Technologies Development Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YAN, Hao, WANG, Wen, LI, Jinsheng
• Granted Patent: US 10,948,430 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/03 Computed tomography [CT] echo-tomography A61B8/14
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/03 by measuring coordinates of points
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2223/303 calibrating, standardising
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2223/306 computer control
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 23/046 using tomography, e.g. computed tomography [CT]

Abstract

A method for determining a CT system parameter: controlling a mould body to move between an X-ray source and a detection surface of a detector, and acquiring X-ray projections of the mould body during movement on the detection surface, wherein the mould body has a first plane and a second plane perpendicular to each other, and the first plane and the second plane are always perpendicular to the detection surface during the movement of the mould body; determining a first straight line and a second straight line according to the acquired X-ray projections; and determining an intersection point of the first straight line and the second straight line as a pedal coordinate of a focus of the X-ray source on the detection surface, a CT coordinate system parameter including the coordinates of the foot of the perpendicular.

Claims

1. A method for determining a computed tomography (CT) system parameter, wherein a CT system comprises an X-ray source and a detector;

and the method comprises;

controlling a mould body to move between the X-ray source and a detection surface of the detector; and

acquiring X-ray projections of the mould body during movement on the detection surface, wherein the mould body has a first plane and a second plane perpendicular to each other, and the first plane and the second plane are always perpendicular to the detection surface during the movement of the mould body;

determining a first straight line and a second straight line according to the acquired X-ray projections, wherein the first straight line is a straight line of a projection line segment of an edge of the first plane in boundary line segments of the acquired X-ray projections, the second straight line is a straight line of a projection line segment of an edge of the second plane in the boundary line segments of the acquired X-ray projections, a plane determined by the first straight line and a focus of the X-ray source is perpendicular to the detection surface, and a plane determined by the second straight line and the focus of the X-ray source is perpendicular to the detection surface; and

determining an intersection point of the first straight line and the second straight line as coordinates of a foot of a perpendicular of the focus of the X-ray source on the detection surface, wherein a CT coordinate system parameter comprises the coordinates of the foot of the perpendicular.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the CT system parameter further comprises an in-plane rotation angle of the detector;

and the method further comprises;

determining any one of line segments from the boundary line segments of any one of the X-ray projections of the mould body; and

determining the in-plane rotation angle according to the any one of line segments.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the CT system parameter further comprises a distance between the focus of the X-ray source and the detection surface;

and the method further comprises;

moving the mould body to make a mark point on the mould body to coincide with a first coordinate point, and acquiring a first X-ray projection of the mould body on the detection surface;

controlling the mark point on the mould body to move from the first coordinate point to a second coordinate point, and acquiring a second X-ray projection of the mould body on the detection surface; and

determining the distance between the focus of the X-ray source and the detection surface according to a geometric relationship among the first X-ray projection, the second X-ray projection, the first coordinate point, and the second coordinate point.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the CT system parameter further comprises a distance between the focus of the X-ray source and a rotation center point of the CT system and the first coordinate point is located on a plane which passes through the rotation center point and parallel to the first plane, and after acquiring the second X-ray projection of the mould body on the detection surface, the method further comprises:

determining the distance between the focus of the X-ray source and the rotation center point of the CT system according to the geometric relationship among the first X-ray projection, the second X-ray projection, the first coordinate point, and the second coordinate point.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the first coordinate point coincides with the rotation center point.

6. The method according to of claim 3, wherein the mark point is located on the first plane.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mould body has m first planes parallel to each other and m is an integer greater than or equal to 2;

and the controlling a mould body to move between the X-ray source and a detection surface of the detector and acquiring the X-ray projections of the mould body during the movement on the detection surface comprise;

controlling the mould body to move multiple times in a first direction, and acquiring a plurality of third X-ray projections of the mould body on the detection surface, wherein the first direction is perpendicular to the first plane, and boundary line segments of the third X-ray projections comprise projection line segments of edges of two first planes; and

controlling the mould body to perform at least one periodic movement and acquiring a plurality of fourth X-ray projections of the mould body on the detection surface, until in one periodic movement process of the mould body, projection line segments of edges of the same second plane in boundary line segments of all the fourth X-ray projections of the mould body are located on the same straight line, wherein the periodic movement comprises;

moving in a second direction and controlling the mould body to move multiple times in a third direction after the mould body is controlled to move in the second direction, the fourth X-ray projection is the X-ray projection of the mould body on the detection surface during the movement in the third direction, the second direction is perpendicular to the second plane, and the third direction is perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction; and

the determining a first straight line and a second straight line according to the acquired X-ray projections comprises;

screening out a target X-ray projection from the plurality of third X-ray projections, wherein the target X-ray projection is a projection with the minimum distance between the projection line segments of the edges of the two first planes among the boundary line segments of the plurality of third X-ray projections, a reference X-ray projection and the target X-ray projection are two X-ray projections continuously acquired from the plurality of third X-ray projections, a distance between the projection line segments of the edges of the two first planes in the boundary line segments of the target X-ray projection is less than a distance between the projection line segments of the edges of the two first planes in the boundary line segments of the reference X-ray projection;

determining a straight line of a projection line segment away from a center of the reference X-ray projection in the projection line segments of the edges of the two first planes in the boundary line segment of the target X-ray projection as the first straight line; and

determining the same straight line as the second straight line.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the CT system further comprises a scanning table and a light-limiting door of the X-ray source, and the mould body is the scanning table or the light-limiting door.

9. A device for determining a computed tomography (CT) system parameter, comprising:

at least one processor, at least one interface, a memory and at least one bus; and

wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute an executable module stored in the memory to implement the method according to claim 1.

17. A computer-readable storage medium, wherein instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium;

and when the computer-readable storage medium runs on a computer, the computer is caused to execute the method for determining a CT system parameter according to claim 1.

18. The device according to claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is a central processing unit.

19. The device according to claim 9, wherein the executable module is a computer program.

20. The device according to claim 9, wherein the at least one interface is configured to implemented the communication connection between the CT system parameter determining device and at least one other device.

21. The device according to claim 9, wherein the memory stores a program that can be executed by the processor.

22. The device according to claim 9, wherein the memory comprises a high-speed random access memory.

23. The device according to claim 22, wherein the memory further comprises a non-volatile memory.

24. The device according to claim 23, wherein the non-volatile memory is at least one magnet disk memory.

25. The device according to claim 9, wherein the memory and the at least one interface are respectively connected to the at least one processor through the at least one bus.

26. The device according to claim 9, wherein the at least one bus is configured to implement connection and communication among the at least one processor, the at least one interface and the memory.

10-16. -16. (canceled)