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With the newly gained interest in the time of flight method for positron emission tomography (TOF-PET), many options for pushing the time resolution to its borders have been investigated. As one of these options the exploitation of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 S. E. Brunner , L. Gruber , J. Marton , K. Suzuki , A. Hirtl

The integration of Time-of-Flight (TOF) information in the reconstruction process of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) yields improved image properties. However, implementing the cutting-edge model-based deep learning methods for TOF-PET…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Chenxu Li , Rui Hu , Jianan Cui , Huafeng Liu

Neural networks can represent and accurately reconstruct radiance fields for static 3D scenes (e.g., NeRF). Several works extend these to dynamic scenes captured with monocular video, with promising performance. However, the monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Benjamin Attal , Eliot Laidlaw , Aaron Gokaslan , Changil Kim , Christian Richardt , James Tompkin , Matthew O'Toole

The aim of this paper is to test and analyze a novel technique for image reconstruction in positron emission tomography, which is based on (total variation) regularization on both the image space and the projection space. We formulate our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Martin Burger , Jahn Müller , Evangelos Papoutsellis , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

We consider the problem of joint reconstruction of both attenuation $a$ and source density $f$ in emission tomography in two dimensions. This is sometimes called the Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) identification problem,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Sean Holman , Philip Richardson

The purpose of this study was to show how advanced concepts of compact, lossless and "Time Of Flight" (TOF) capable electronics similar to those foreseen for the LHC and ILC experiments could be fairly and easily transferred to the medical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-03 P. -E. Vert , J. Lecoq , G. Montarou , N. Pauna , B. Joly , M. Boutemeur , H. Mathez , R. Gaglione , P. Le Dû

Intraoperative Gamma Probe (IPG) remains the current gold standard modality for sentinel lymph node identification and tumor removal in cancer patients. However, even alongside the optical dyes they do not meet with <5% false negative rates…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 S. Sajedi , L. Blackberg , S. Majewski , H. Sabet

Low-count reconstruction remains a challenge for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) even with the recent progress in time-of-flight (TOF) resolution. In this context, the bias between the acquired histogram, consisting of low values or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Maxime Toussaint , Francis Loignon-Houle , Roger Lecomte , Jean-Pierre Dussault

As the medical usage of computed tomography (CT) continues to grow, the radiation dose should remain at a low level to reduce the health risks. Therefore, there is an increasing need for algorithms that can reconstruct high-quality images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Davood Karimi , Rabab K. Ward

We propose a novel approach to recovering the translucent objects from a single time-of-flight (ToF) depth camera using deep residual networks. When recording the translucent objects using the ToF depth camera, their depth values are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Seongjong Song , Hyunjung Shim

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction is inherently challenged by Poisson noise and physical degradation factors, which are further exacerbated in limited-angle acquisitions. While deep learning methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Rüveyda Yilmaz , Yuli Wu , Johannes Stegmaier , Volkmar Schulz

Scene motion, multiple reflections, and sensor noise introduce artifacts in the depth reconstruction performed by time-of-flight cameras. We propose a two-stage, deep-learning approach to address all of these sources of artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Qi Guo , Iuri Frosio , Orazio Gallo , Todd Zickler , Jan Kautz

We introduce a new CT image reconstruction algorithm that is less affected by various artifacts. The new reconstruction algorithm is a method of minimizing the difference between synchrotron X-ray tomography data and sinograms generated…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Byung Chun Kim , Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

A novel method for sinogram denoise based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the field of SPECT imaging is presented. Projection data from software phantoms were used to train the proposed model. For evaluation of the efficacy of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Charalambos Chrysostomou

3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) image sensors are used widely in applications such as self-driving cars, Augmented Reality (AR) and robotics. When implemented with Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs), compact, array format sensors can be made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Germán Mora Martín , Stirling Scholes , Alice Ruget , Robert K. Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras calculate depth maps by reconstructing phase shifts of amplitude-modulated signals. For broad illumination or transparent objects, reflections from multiple scene points can illuminate a given pixel, giving rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Ayush Bhandari , Achuta Kadambi , Refael Whyte , Christopher Barsi , Micha Feigin , Adrian Dorrington , Ramesh Raskar

Modern tomography involves gathering projection data from multiple directions and feeding them into a software algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. We focus our study on image reconstruction from Radon data in the setting of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Maria Angela Narduzzo

Reconstructing an image from its Radon transform is a fundamental computed tomography (CT) task arising in applications such as X-ray scans. In many practical scenarios, a full 180-degree scan is not feasible, or there is a desire to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ilmari Vahteristo , Zhi-Song Liu , Andreas Rupp