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Purpose: Fast kV-switching (FKS) and dual-layer flat-panel detector (DL-FPD) technologies have been actively studied as promising dual-energy solutions for FPD-based cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). However, CBCT spectral imaging is…

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Stereoscopic spectral imaging is an observing technique that affords rapid acquisition of limited spectral information over an entire image plane simultaneously. Light from a telescope is dispersed into multiple spectral orders, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig E. DeForest , Charles C. Kankelborg

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ziju Shen , Haimiao Zhang , Bin Dong , Jun Qiu , Yunxiang Li , Zhili Cui

This paper presents a new compression technique and image watermarking algorithm based on Contourlet Transform (CT). For image compression, an energy based quantization is used. Scalar quantization is explored for image watermarking. Double…

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Acquiring high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images requires administering high-dose radiotracers, which increases radiation exposure risks. Generating standard-dose PET (SPET) from low-dose PET (LPET) has become a potential…

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Multispectral object detection aims to leverage complementary information from visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) modalities to enable robust performance under diverse environmental conditions. Our key insight, derived from wavelet analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Seongmin Hwang , Daeyoung Han , Moongu Jeon

This paper introduces two acquisition device architectures for multispectral compressive imaging. Unlike most existing methods, the proposed computational imaging techniques do not include any dispersive element, as they use a dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Kévin Degraux , Valerio Cambareri , Bert Geelen , Laurent Jacques , Gauthier Lafruit

Symmetry adaptation techniques are applied to the determination of the intensity of two-photon absorption transitions, between Stark levels of configurations with opposite parities, for transition ions in finite symmetry environments. The…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Daoud , M. Kibler

Inter-crystal scattering (ICS) in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is commonly regarded as a degradation effect that might compromise the image spatial resolution. In parallel, the inclusion of ICS events has also been recognized as a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jorge Roser , Hong Phuc Vo , Rebecca Kantorek , Steven Seeger , Magdalena Rafecas

Deep spectral methods reframe the image decomposition process as a graph partitioning task by extracting features using self-supervised learning and utilizing the Laplacian of the affinity matrix to obtain eigensegments. However, instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Farnoosh Arefi , Amir M. Mansourian , Shohreh Kasaei

Computed tomography (CT) involves a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. To reduce the radiation dose, we can either lower the X-ray photon count or down-sample projection views. However, either of the ways often compromises image…

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Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) provides a mechanism to estimate regional isotope uptake in lesions and at-risk organs after administration of {\alpha}-particle-emitting radiopharmaceutical therapies ({\alpha}-RPTs).…

We demonstrate a method that reduces the noise caused by multi-scattering (MS) photons in an \invivo optical coherence tomography image. This method combines a specially designed image acquisition (i.e., optical coherence tomography scan)…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-13 Yiqiang Zhu , Lida Zhu , Yiheng Lim , Shuichi Makita , Yu Guo , Yoshiaki Yasuno

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used imaging modality for medical diagnosis and treatment. In electroencephalography (EEG), CT imaging is necessary for co-registering with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and for creating more accurate…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Andreas D. Lauritzen , Xenophon Papademetris , Sergei Turovets , John A. Onofrey

Image fusion in visual sensor networks (VSNs) aims to combine information from multiple images of the same scene in order to transform a single image with more information. Image fusion methods based on discrete cosine transform (DCT) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Touba Malekzadeh , Hadi Seyedarabi

Hyperspectral imaging aims at providing information on both the spatial and the spectral distribution of light, with high resolution. However, state-of-the-art protocols are characterized by an intrinsic trade-off imposing to sacrifice…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-22 Gianlorenzo Massaro , Francesco V. Pepe , Milena D'Angelo

Dark-field imaging based on grating interferometry is an emerging X-ray modality in medical imaging, which is particularly capable of providing complementary diagnostic information by visualizing the microstructural properties of lung…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Longchao Men , Peiyuan Guo , Jincheng Lu , Yan Xu , Hongxia Yin , Zhenchang Wang , Li Zhang , Zhentian Wang

We present an assessment of a multi-method approach based on ion beam analysis to obtain high-resolution depth profiles of the total chemical composition of complex alloy systems. As a model system we employ an alloy based on several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 M. V. Moro , R. Holeňák , L. Zendejas Medina , U. Jansson , D. Primetzhofer