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Computed Tomography (CT) is pivotal in industrial quality control and medical diagnostics. Sparse-view CT, offering reduced ionizing radiation, faces challenges due to its under-sampled nature, leading to ill-posed reconstruction problems.…

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We derive computed tomography (CT) of a time-varying volumetric translucent object, using a small number of moving cameras. We particularly focus on passive scattering tomography, which is a non-linear problem. We demonstrate the approach…

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This paper proposes a novel approach to spectral computed tomography (CT) material decomposition that uses the recent advances in generative diffusion models (DMs) for inverse problems. Spectral CT and more particularly photon-counting CT…

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

Attenuation compensation (AC), while being beneficial for visual-interpretation tasks in myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by SPECT, typically requires the availability of a separate X-ray CT component, leading to additional radiation…

As photon counting detectors are being explored for medical and industrial imaging applications, there is a critical need to understand spectral characteristics of scattered x-ray photons. Scattered radiation is detrimental to x-ray imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Cale E. Lewis , Mini Das

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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We present a quantitative study of coherent array imaging of remote sources in randomly perturbed waveguides with bounded cross-section. We study how long range cumulative scattering by perturbations of the boundary and the medium impedes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Chrysoula Tsogka

We propose a method for the computation of a consistent system matrix for two- and three-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography (CT). The method relies on the decomposition of the cone-voxel intersection volumes into subvolumes that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Josef Simbrunner , Clemens Krenn , Martin Zach , Andreas Habring

In the current paper we consider the Helical Cone Beam CT. This scanning method exposes the patient to large quantities of radiation and results in very large amounts of data being collected and stored. Both these facts are prime motivators…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Tamir Bendory , Arie Feuer

AIMS: Clinical radiographic imaging is seated upon the principle of differential keV photon transmission through an object. At clinical x-ray energies the scattering of photons causes signal noise and is utilized solely for transmission…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ida Häggström , Lukas M. Carter , Thomas J. Fuchs , Adam L. Kesner

Fast frame-rates are desirable in scanning transmission electron microscopy for a number of reasons: controlling electron beam dose, capturing in-situ events or reducing the appearance of scan distortions. Whilst several strategies exist…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Jonathan J. P Peters , Tiarnan Mullarkey , James A. Gott , Elizabeth Nelson , Lewys Jones

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been widely used in clinical practice, especially in dental clinics, while the radiation dose of X-rays when capturing has been a long concern in CBCT imaging. Several research works have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Yu Fang , Lanzhuju Mei , Changjian Li , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang , Zhiming Cui , Dinggang Shen

Traditional dictionary learning based CT reconstruction methods are patch-based and the features learned with these methods often contain shifted versions of the same features. To deal with these problems, the convolutional sparse coding…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Peng Bao , Wenjun Xia , Kang Yang , Jiliu Zhou , Yi Zhang

This paper reports a CPU-level real-time stereo matching method for surgical images (10 Hz on 640 * 480 image with a single core of i5-9400). The proposed method is built on the fast ''dense inverse searching'' algorithm, which estimates…

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Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) was developed based on Image-guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) and it is the trend of photon radiation therapy. To get a better use of Cone Beam CT (CBCT) images for ART, the CBCT system model was established…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 Yu Wang , Chaobin Chen , Ruifen Cao , Liqin Hu , Bingbing Li

Over the years, the Invariant Scattering Transform (IST) technique has become popular for medical image analysis, including using wavelet transform computation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to capture patterns' scale and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman , Zahed Siddique

Large Vision Model (LVM) has recently demonstrated great potential for medical imaging tasks, potentially enabling image enhancement for sparse-view Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT), despite requiring a substantial amount of data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Minghui Wu , Yangdi Xu , Yingying Xu , Guangwei Wu , Qingqing Chen , Hongxiang Lin

The inversion of linear systems is a fundamental step in many inverse problems. Computational challenges exist when trying to invert large linear systems, where limited computing resources mean that only part of the system can be kept in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yushan Gao , Thomas Blumensath

The goal of synthetic aperture imaging is to estimate the reflectivity of a remote region of interest by processing data gathered with a moving sensor which emits periodically a signal and records the backscattered wave. We introduce and…

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