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In X-ray CT scan with metallic objects, it is known that direct application of the filtered back-projection (FBP) formula leads to streaking artifacts in the reconstruction. These are characterized mathematically in terms of wave front sets…
Limited angle problem is a challenging issue in x-ray computed tomography (CT) field. Iterative reconstruction methods that utilize the additional prior can suppress artifacts and improve image quality, but unfortunately require increased…
We study artifacts in the reconstruction of X-ray tomography due to nonlinear effects. For non-convex metal objects, we analyze the new phenomena of streak artifacts from inflection points on the boundary of metal objects. We characterize…
The mathematical foundation of X-ray CT is based on the assumption that by measuring the attenuation of X-rays passing through an object, one can recover the integrals of the attenuation coefficient $\mu(x)$ along a sufficiently rich family…
Limited-angle computerized tomography stands for one of the most difficult challenges in imaging. Although it opens the way to faster data acquisition in industry and less dangerous scans in medicine, standard approaches, such as the…
X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely utilized in the medical, industrial, and other fields to nondestructively generate three-dimensional structural images of objects. However, CT images are often affected by various artifacts, with…
We develop a paradigm using microlocal analysis that allows one to characterize the visible and added singularities in a broad range of incomplete data tomography problems. We give precise characterizations for photo- and thermoacoustic…
We study streaking artifacts caused by beam-hardening effects in X-ray computed tomography (CT). The effect is known to be nonlinear. We show that the nonlinearity can be recovered from the observed artifacts for strictly convex bodies. The…
In this paper, we consider the problem of feature reconstruction from incomplete x-ray CT data. Such problems occurs, e.g., as a result of dose reduction in the context medical imaging. Since image reconstruction from incomplete data is a…
Limited-angle computed tomography (CT) is often used in clinical applications such as C-arm CT for interventional imaging. However, CT images from limited angles suffers from heavy artifacts due to incomplete projection data. Existing…
Inconsistent responses of X-ray detector elements lead to stripe artifacts in the sinogram data, which manifest as ring artifacts in the reconstructed CT images, severely degrading image quality. This paper proposes a method for correcting…
Filtered back projection (FBP) is the most widely used method for image reconstruction in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners. The presence of hyper-dense materials in a scene, such as metals, can strongly attenuate X-rays, producing…
Classical methods for X-ray computed tomography are based on the assumption that the X-ray source intensity is known, but in practice, the intensity is measured and hence uncertain. Under normal operating conditions, when the exposure time…
Metal streak artifacts in X-ray computerized tomography (CT) are rigorously characterized here using the notion of the wavefront set from microlocal analysis. The metal artifacts are caused mainly from the mismatch of the forward model of…
Synthetic data provides a promising approach to address data scarcity for training machine learning models; however, adoption without proper quality assessments may introduce artifacts, distortions, and unrealistic features that compromise…
Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a powerful tool for biomedical studies. It achieves 3D visualization of mesoscopic biological samples with high spatial resolution using conventional tomographic-reconstruction algorithms. However,…
In computed tomography (CT), metal implants increase the inconsistencies between the measured data and the linear attenuation assumption made by analytic CT reconstruction algorithms. The inconsistencies give rise to dark and bright bands…
Ring artifacts in X-ray micro-CT images are one of the primary causes of concern in their accurate visual interpretation and quantitative analysis. The geometry of X-ray micro-CT scanners is similar to the medical CT machines, except the…
Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is widely used in dentistry for diagnostics and treatment planning. CBCT Imaging has a long acquisition time and consequently, the patient is likely to move. This motion causes significant artifacts in…
In this article, we consider the limited angle problem in computed X-ray tomography. A common practice is to use the filtered back projection with the limited data. However, this practice has been shown to introduce the artifacts along some…