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Modern tomography involves gathering projection data from multiple directions and feeding them into a software algorithm for tomographic reconstruction. We focus our study on image reconstruction from Radon data in the setting of…

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As Computed Tomography (CT) scans are an essential medical test, many techniques have been proposed to reconstruct high-quality images using a smaller amount of radiation. One approach is to employ algebraic factorization methods to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Mónica Chillarón , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí , Vicente Vidal , Gumersindo Verdú

As the medical usage of computed tomography (CT) continues to grow, the radiation dose should remain at a low level to reduce the health risks. Therefore, there is an increasing need for algorithms that can reconstruct high-quality images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Davood Karimi , Rabab K. Ward

Computed tomography (CT) is a beneficial imaging tool for diagnostic purposes. CT scans provide detailed information concerning the internal anatomic structures of a patient, but present higher radiation dose and costs compared to X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Benjamin Paulson , Joshua Goldshteyn , Sydney Balboni , John Cisler , Andrew Crisler , Natalia Bukowski , Julia Kalish , Theodore Colwell

X-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans raises a clinical concern in most image guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this paper to develop a fast GPU-based algorithm to reconstruct high quality CBCT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xun Jia , Bin Dong , Yifei Lou , Steve B. Jiang

Computed Tomography (CT) has been widely adopted in medicine and it is increasingly being used in scientific and industrial applications. Parallelly, research in different mathematical areas concerning discrete inverse problems has led to…

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 for positron emission tomography (PET) is challenging because of the ill-conditioned tomographic problem and low counting statistics. Kernel methods address this challenge by using kernel representation to incorporate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang

Photon-counting CT (PCCT) provides superior image quality with higher spatial resolution and lower noise compared to conventional energy-integrating CT (EICT), but its limited clinical availability restricts large-scale research and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Junqi Liu , Xinze Zhou , Wenxuan Li , Scott Ye , Arkadiusz Sitek , Xiaofeng Yang , Yucheng Tang , Daguang Xu , Kai Ding , Kang Wang , Yang Yang , Alan L. Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used non-invasive diagnostic method in various fields, and recent advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in CT image reconstruction. However, the lack of large-scale, open-access…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Maximilian B. Kiss , Ander Biguri , Zakhar Shumaylov , Ferdia Sherry , K. Joost Batenburg , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Felix Lucka

Deep-neural-network-based image reconstruction has demonstrated promising performance in medical imaging for under-sampled and low-dose scenarios. However, it requires large amount of memory and extensive time for the training. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Quanzheng Li

Due to the merit of establishing volumetric data, X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is increasingly used as a non-destructive evaluation technique in the quality control of advanced manufactured parts with complex non-line-of-sight features.…

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

External beam X-ray therapy (XRT) and proton therapy (PT) are effective and widely accepted forms of treatment for many types of cancer. However, the procedures require extensive computerized planning. Current planning systems for both XRT…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Felix G. Hamza-Lup , Shane Farrar , Erik Leon

Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely used technology that requires compute-intense algorithms for image reconstruction. We propose a novel back-projection algorithm that reduces the projection computation cost to 1/6 of the standard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Peng Chen , Mohamed Wahib , Shinichiro Takizawa , Ryousei Takano , Satoshi Matsuoka

SPECT (Single-photon Emission Computerized Tomography) and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) are essential medical imaging tools, for which the sampling angle number, scan time should be chosen carefully to compromise between image quality…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xiaolin Zhou , Minkai Yun , Xuexiang Cao , Shuangquan Liu , Lu Wang , Xianchao Huang , Long Wei

Performing X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations with less radiation has recently received increasing interest: in medical imaging this means less (potentially harmful) radiation for the patient; in non-destructive testing of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dragos Trinca , Eduard Libin

In this work, we proposed virtual imaging simulators as an alternative approach to experimental validation of beam range uncertainty in complex patient geometry using a computational model of a human head and a photon-counting CT scanner.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 S. Vrbaški , G. Stanić , S. Molinelli , M. Bhattarai , E. Abadi , M. Ciocca , E. Samei

Background: Whereas filtered back projection algorithms for voxel-based CT image reconstruction have noise properties defined by the filter, iterative algorithms must stop at some point in their convergence and do not necessarily produce…

Proton therapy is a cancer treatment technique currently in growth worldwide. It offers advantages with respect to conventional X-ray and $\gamma$-ray radiotherapy, in particular, a better control of the dose deposition allowing to reach a…