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sCMOS rolling shutter compensation for dynamic micro-computed tomography
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sCMOS rolling shutter compensation for dynamic micro-computed tomography

Daniel S Meggo and Jacob Herrmann
Physics in medicine & biology, Vol.71(1), 015022
01/14/2026
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ae2cdb
PMID: 41397359
Appears in  UI Libraries Support Open Access
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Abstract

To develop a pixel-row-specific retrospective gating technique for dynamic micro-CT imaging that removes motion artifacts introduced by rolling shutter acquisition on sCMOS detectors. The proposed by-row gating technique-which accounts for the differences in acquisition timing of individual rows of pixels in each projection frame-is compared to the conventional method of by-frame gating wherein all pixels of a frame are assumed to have been acquired simultaneously. The errors associated with each gating method are demonstrated analytically, numerically (by simulated scanning of a dynamic phantom), and experimentally (by scanning an inflatable object and an ex vivo lung sample). By-row gating minimizes phase errors in the projection image domain prior to reconstruction, resulting in images with less out-of-phase motion, reduced motion artifact, and higher spatiotemporal resolution. Phase errors produced from by-row gating are determined only by the constraints of detector integration time and reconstructed phase bin width. Conversely, when gating by frame, spatially varying phase errors in the projection image domain are propagated into the reconstructed images, resulting in out-of-phase motion and motion artifacts that increase in severity with distance from the center of rotation. The magnitude and spatial pattern of this error depend on the ratio of object phase rate to frame acquisition rate, beam collimation and rolling shutter orientation. We identify two key parameters that determine the severity of micro-CT imaging artifacts caused by rolling shutter acquisition, and we provide an algorithm for by-row gating that eliminates artifacts and can be implemented on any rolling shutter system. By-row gating outperforms conventional by-frame gating, enabling accurate reconstruction of high-speed phenomena without compromising the high spatiotemporal resolution necessary to study microstructural dynamics.
 4DCT Retrospective gating Motion artifacts Synchrotron imaging Time-resolved image reconstruction UIOWA OA Agreement

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