English
Related papers

Related papers: A projection-domain low-count quantitative SPECT m…

200 papers

Hyperspectral Imaging is the acquisition of spectral and spatial information of a particular scene. Capturing such information from a specialized hyperspectral camera remains costly. Reconstructing such information from the RGB image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 D. Sabari Nathan , K. Uma , D Synthiya Vinothini , B. Sathya Bama , S. M. Md Mansoor Roomi

Modern PET systems reach a spatial resolution of 3-10 mm. A disadvantage of this technique is the diffusion of the positron before its decay with a typical range of ca. 1 mm (depending on its energy). This motion and Compton scattering of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-02-03 C. Lang , D. Habs , P. G. Thirolf , A. Zoglauer

In this paper, we present a novel Bayesian approach for estimating spectral and range profiles from single-photon Lidar waveforms associated with single surfaces in the photon-limited regime. In contrast to classical multispectral Lidar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Quentin Legros , Sylvain Meignen , Stephen McLaughlin , Yoann Altmann

Recently it has been shown that precise dose control and an increase in the overall acquisition speed of atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) images can be achieved by acquiring only a small fraction of the…

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is a recent hybrid imaging modality that couples optical tomography with ultrasound imaging to achieve high resolution imaging of optical properties of scattering media. Image reconstruction in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Tian Ding , Kui Ren , Sarah Vallelian

Spectral computed tomography (CT) with photon-counting detectors holds immense potential for material discrimination and tissue characterization. However, under ultra-low-dose conditions, the sharply degraded signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Peng Peng , Xinrui Zhang , Junlin Wang , Lei Li , Shaoyu Wang , Qiegen Liu

Purpose. - Radiotherapy is an important treatment for prostate cancer.During treatment sessions, bladder and rectal repletion is difficult to quantify and cannot be measured with a single and initial CT scan acquisition. Some methods, such…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-04-06 Cyril Voyant , Katia Biffi , Leschi Delphine , Jerome Briancon , Celine Lantieri Marcovici

Four-dimensional (4D) wide coverage computed tomography (CT) is an effective imaging modality for measuring the mechanical function of the myocardium. However, repeated CT measurement across several heartbeats is still a concern. A…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Zhye Yin , Pengwei Wu , Ashish Manohar , Elliot R. McVeigh , Jed D. Pack

Electron tomography (ET) has become a standard technique for 3D characterization of materials at the nano-scale. Traditional reconstruction algorithms such as weighted back projection suffer from disruptive artifacts with insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yi Jiang , Elliot Padgett , Robert Hovden , David A. Muller

This work deals with the reconstruction of dynamic images that incorporate characteristic dynamics in certain subregions, as arising for the kinetics of many tracers in emission tomography (SPECT, PET). We make use of a basis function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Martin Burger , Carolin Rossmanith , Xiaoqun Zhang

We summarize recent results and ongoing activities in mathematical algorithms and computer science methods related to proton computed tomography (pCT) and intensity-modulated particle therapy (IMPT) treatment planning. Proton therapy…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Yair Censor , Keith E. Schubert , Reinhard W. Schulte

Here we apply hyperspectral bright field imaging to collect computed tomographic images with excellent energy resolution (800 eV), applying it for the first time to map the distribution of stain in a fixed biological sample through its…

A novel phase retrieval method, motivated by ptychographic imaging, is proposed for the approximate recovery of a compactly supported specimen function $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ from its continuous short time Fourier transform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Sami Merhi , Aditya Viswanathan , Mark Iwen

Combining dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) with positron emission tomography (PET) offers many potential clinical applications but typically requires expensive hardware upgrades or increases radiation doses on PET/CT scanners due to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Siqi Li , Yansong Zhu , Benjamin A. Spencer , Guobao Wang

Multiphase contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) scan is clinically significant to demonstrate the anatomy at different phases. In practice, such a multiphase CECT scan inherently takes longer time and deposits much more radiation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Rongjun Ge , Yuting He , Cong Xia , Yang Chen , Daoqiang Zhang , Ge Wang

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a non-invasive imaging modality, similar to ultrasound, with wide-ranging medical applications. Conventional PACT images are degraded by wavefront distortion caused by the heterogeneous speed of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Tianao Li , Manxiu Cui , Cheng Ma , Emma Alexander

In hyperspectral remote sensing data mining, it is important to take into account of both spectral and spatial information, such as the spectral signature, texture feature and morphological property, to improve the performances, e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Lefei Zhang , Qian Zhang , Bo Du , Xin Huang , Yuan Yan Tang , Dacheng Tao

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) plays a vital role in clinical applications by mitigating radiation risks. Nevertheless, reducing radiation doses significantly degrades image quality. Concurrently, common deep learning methods demand…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Wenhao Zhang , Bin Huang , Shuyue Chen , Xiaoling Xu , Weiwen Wu , Qiegen Liu

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used to obtain quantitative elemental composition of imaged subjects for personalized and precise medical diagnosis. Compared with DECT leveraging advanced X-ray source and/or detector…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Qiaoxin Li , Ruifeng Chen , Peng Wang , Guotao Quan , Yanfeng Du , Dong Liang , Yinsheng Li

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has attracted much attention in radiation dose reduction, metal artifacts removal, tissue quantification and material discrimination. The x-ray energy spectrum is divided into several bins, each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Weiwen Wu , Dianlin Hu , Chuang Niu , Lieza Vanden Broeke , Anthony P. H. Butler , Peng Cao , James Atlas , Alexander Chernoglazov , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Ge Wang