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Compressed sensing (CS) computed tomography has been proven to be important for several clinical applications, such as sparse-view computed tomography (CT), digital tomosynthesis and interior tomography. Traditional compressed sensing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Yi Zhang , Hu Chen , Wenjun Xia , Yang Chen , Baodong Liu , Yan Liu , Huaiqiang Sun , Jiliu Zhou

In this paper we propose a low-cost high-speed imaging line scan system. We replace an expensive industrial line scan camera and illumination with a custom-built set-up of cheap off-the-shelf components, yielding a measurement system with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Stef Van Wolputte , Wim Abbeloos , Stijn Helsen , Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani , Toon Goedemé

The compressed sensing (CS) framework leverages the sparsity of MR images to reconstruct from undersampled acquisitions. CS reconstructions involve one or more regularization parameters that weigh sparsity in transform domains against…

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is an important tool in medical imaging to obtain a direct visualization of patient anatomy. However, the x-ray radiation exposure leads to the concern of lifetime cancer risk. Low-dose CT scan can reduce the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Guoyang Ma , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia

Spectral computed tomography (CT) is an emerging technology, that generates a multienergy attenuation map for the interior of an object and extends the traditional image volume into a 4D form. Compared with traditional CT based on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Xiang Chen , Wenjun Xia , Ziyuan Yang , Hu Chen , Yan Liu , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

Computed Tomography (CT) takes X-ray measurements on the subjects to reconstruct tomographic images. As X-ray is radioactive, it is desirable to control the total amount of dose of X-ray for safety concerns. Therefore, we can only select a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ziju Shen , Yufei Wang , Dufan Wu , Xu Yang , Bin Dong

In this paper, a Line based Compressive Sensing (LCS) scheme is discussed and proposed for low power visual applications, in which image acquisition is performed in a line-by-line manner at the encoder side using same measurement operator.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Mansoor Ebrahim , Syed Hasan Adil , Daniyal Nawaz , Kamran Raza

Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dragos Trinca , Eduard Libin

X-ray imaging is the most popular medical imaging technology. While x-ray radiography is rather cost-effective, tissue structures are superimposed along the x-ray paths. On the other hand, computed tomography (CT) reconstructs internal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Chuang Niu , Ge Wang

Computed Tomography (CT) is an imaging technique where information about an object are collected at different angles (called projections or scans). Then the cross-sectional image showing the internal structure of the slice is produced by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Zhengchun Liu , Rajkumar Kettimuthu , Ian Foster

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely-used imaging technology that assists clinical decision-making with high-quality human body representations. To reduce the radiation dose posed by CT, sparse-view and limited-angle CT are developed with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Ce Wang , Kun Shang , Haimiao Zhang , Shang Zhao , Dong Liang , S. Kevin Zhou

Ultra sparse-view computed tomography (CT) algorithms can reduce radiation exposure of patients, but those algorithms lack an explicit cycle consistency loss minimization and an explicit log-likelihood maximization in testing. Here, we…

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This paper focuses on minimizing the time requirement for CT capture through innovative simultaneous x-ray capture method. The state-of-the-art CT imaging methodology captures a sequence of projections during which the internal organ…

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Computed Tomography (CT) is a technology that reconstructs cross-sectional images using X-ray images taken from multiple directions. In CT, hundreds of X-ray images acquired as the X-ray source and detector rotate around a central axis, are…

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Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy for both clinical and research purposes. Since CT involves ionizing radiation, an overarching thrust of related technical research is development of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Chenyu You , Guang Li , Yi Zhang , Xiaoliu Zhang , Hongming Shan , Shenghong Ju , Zhen Zhao , Zhuiyang Zhang , Wenxiang Cong , Michael W. Vannier , Punam K. Saha , Ge Wang

Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods are studied extensively for X-ray computed tomography (CT) due to the potential of acquiring CT scans with reduced X-ray dose while maintaining image quality. However, the longer reconstruction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Hung Nien , Jeffrey A. Fessler

With the emergence of CNT (Carbon nanotube), static and instant CT scanning becomes possible. By transforming the traditionally rotated thermal source into a static ring array source composed of multiple CNTs, the imaging system can achieve…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Jiayu Duan , Yang Li , Jianmei Cai , Xuanqin Mou

X-ray computed tomographic infrastructures are medical imaging modalities that rely on the acquisition of rays crossing examined objects while measuring their intensity decrease. Physical measurements are post-processed by mathematical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Attila Juhos

As Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an essential medical test, many techniques have been proposed to reconstruct high-quality images using a smaller amount of radiation. One approach is to employ algebraic factorization methods to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Mónica Chillarón , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Vicente Vidal , Gumersindo Verdú

The use of computed tomography (CT) imaging has become of increasing interest to academic areas outside of the field of medical imaging and industrial inspection, e.g., to biology and cultural heritage research. The pecularities of these…

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