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Purpose: The goal is to develop a new architecture for computed tomography (CT) which is at an ultra-low-dose for developing countries, especially in rural areas. Methods: The proposed scheme is inspired by the recently developed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Fenglin Liu , Hengyong Yu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

The generalized minimal residual (GMRES) algorithm is applied to image reconstruction using linear computed tomography (CT) models. The GMRES algorithm iteratively solves square, non-symmetric linear systems and it has practical application…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Emil Y. Sidky , Per Christian Hansen , Jakob S. Jørgensen , Xiaochuan Pan

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) is widely used in engineering and medicine for imaging the interior of objects, patients, or animals. If the employed X-ray source is monoenergetic, image reconstruction essentially means the inversion of a ray…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Georgios Papanikos , Benedikt Wirth

The unprecedented X-ray flux density provided by modern X-ray sources offers new spatiotemporal possibilities for X-ray imaging of fast dynamic processes. Approaches to exploit such possibilities often result in either i) a limited number…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Zisheng Yao , Yuhe Zhang , Zhe Hu , Robert Klöfkorn , Tobias Ritschel , Pablo Villanueva-Perez

A CT image can be well reconstructed when the sampling rate of the sinogram satisfies the Nyquist criteria and the sampled signal is noise-free. However, in practice, the sinogram is usually contaminated by noise, which degrades the quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Wei Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chuanjiang He , Zemin Ren , Jian Lu , Tianfu Wang , Baiying Lei

Variational formulations of reconstruction in computed tomography have the notable drawback of requiring repeated evaluations of both the forward Radon transform and either its adjoint or an approximate inverse transform which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Richard C. Barnard , Rick Archibald

Computed Tomography (CT) scans provide detailed and accurate information of internal structures in the body. They are constructed by sending x-rays through the body from different directions and combining this information into a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Firas Khader , Gustav Müller-Franzes , Tianyu Han , Sven Nebelung , Christiane Kuhl , Johannes Stegmaier , Daniel Truhn

Image reconstruction from insufficient data is common in computed tomography (CT), e.g., image reconstruction from truncated data, limited-angle data and sparse-view data. Deep learning has achieved impressive results in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Guenter Lauritsch , Andreas Maier

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

Synchrotron radiation sources are widely used in various fields, among which computed tomography (CT) is one of the most important. The amount of effort expended by the operator varies depending on the subject. If the number of angles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Ling Li , Yu Hu

Computed Tomography (CT) is a prominent example of Imaging Inverse Problem highlighting the unrivaled performances of data-driven methods in degraded measurements setups like sparse X-ray projections. Although a significant proportion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Thomas Braure , Delphine Lazaro , David Hateau , Vincent Brandon , Kévin Ginsburger

In the practical applications of computed tomography imaging, the projection data may be acquired within a limited-angle range and corrupted by noises due to the limitation of scanning conditions. The noisy incomplete projection data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Qifeng Gao , Rui Ding , Linyuan Wang , Bin Xue , Yuping Duan

Due to its wide field of view, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is plagued by large amounts of scatter, where attenuated photons hit the detector, and corrupt the linear models used for reconstruction. Given that one can generate a good…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Jonathan Mason , Alessandro Perelli , William Nailon , Mike Davies

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

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging can improve the visibility of weakly absorbing objects (e.g. soft tissues) by an order of magnitude or more compared to conventional radiographs. Previously, it has been shown that combining phase retrieval with…

All imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) require a reconstruction approach to produce an image. A common image processing task for applications that utilise those…

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers high resolution multidimensional imaging, but generally suffers from defocussing, intensity falloff and shot noise, causing artifacts and image degradation along the imaging depth.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Jonathan H. Mason , Yvonne Reinwald , Ying Yang , Sarah Waters , Alicia El Haj , Pierre O. Bagnaninchi

Cosmic ray muon computed tomography ({\mu}CT) is a new imaging modality with unique characteristics that could be particularly important for diverse applications including nuclear nonproliferation, spent nuclear fuel monitoring, cargo…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-17 Zhengzhi Liu , Stylianos Chatzidakis , John M. Scaglione , Can Liao , Haori Yang , Jason P. Hayward

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces radiation exposure by subsampling projection views, but conventional reconstruction methods produce severe streak artifacts with undersampled data. While deep-learning-based methods enable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Jixiang Chen , Yiqun Lin , Yi Qin , Hualiang Wang , Xiaomeng Li