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Joint ptychography and tomography (JPT) is a recently developed framework that enables high-resolution reconstruction of 3D volumes with significantly relaxed constraints on probe overlap at adjacent scan positions. In ptychographic X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Azat M. Slyamov , Viktor Nikitin , Doğa Gürsoy , Rajmund Mokso , Jens W. Andreasen

While Computerized Tomography (CT) images can help detect disease such as Covid-19, regular CT machines are large and expensive. Cheaper and more portable machines suffer from errors in geometry acquisition that downgrades CT image quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Peijian Ding

This paper presents an iterative inversion algorithm for computed tomography image reconstruction that performs well in terms of accuracy and speed using limited data. The computational method combines an image domain technique and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-17 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

Computed tomography (CT) can provide a 3D view of the patient's internal organs, facilitating disease diagnosis, but it incurs more radiation dose to a patient and a CT scanner is much more cost prohibitive than an X-ray machine too.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-17 Xingde Ying , Heng Guo , Kai Ma , Jian Wu , Zhengxin Weng , Yefeng Zheng

The concept of Gaussian process tomography along with nonnegative constraints is applied in the context of high-resolution image reconstruction using segmented planar detectors with few readout channels.Expanding on the concept of 2-D…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 D. Blyth , N. Mullins , E. Galyaev , J. Holmes

We propose a method for the computation of a consistent system matrix for two- and three-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography (CT). The method relies on the decomposition of the cone-voxel intersection volumes into subvolumes that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Josef Simbrunner , Clemens Krenn , Martin Zach , Andreas Habring

Three-dimensional particle reconstruction with limited two-dimensional projections is an under-determined inverse problem that the exact solution is often difficult to be obtained. In general, approximate solutions can be obtained by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Qi Gao , Shaowu Pan , Hongping Wang , Runjie Wei , Jinjun Wang

The foreseen CaLIPSO Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner is expected to yield simultaneously a fine image resolution, about 1 mm$^3$, and a high contrast. In this paper we present results of simulations for the full CaLIPSO PET…

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

Industrial X-ray cone-beam CT (XCT) scanners are widely used for scientific imaging and non-destructive characterization. Industrial CBCT scanners use large detectors containing millions of pixels and the subsequent 3D reconstructions can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Aniket Pramanik , Singanallur V. Venkatakrishnan , Obaidullah Rahman , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

Computed tomography is widely used to examine internal structures in a non-destructive manner. To obtain high-quality reconstructions, one typically has to acquire a densely sampled trajectory to avoid angular undersampling. However, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Haoyu Wei , Florian Schiffers , Tobias Würfl , Daming Shen , Daniel Kim , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

In many applications of tomography, the acquired projections are either limited in number or contain a significant amount of noise. In these cases, standard reconstruction methods tend to produce artifacts that can make further analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-11 D. M. Pelt , K. J. Batenburg

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is one of the most common imaging techniques used to diagnose various diseases in the medical field. Its high contrast sensitivity and spatial resolution allow the physician to observe details of body parts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-03 Daeun Kyung , Kyungmin Jo , Jaegul Choo , Joonseok Lee , Edward Choi

In application of tomography imaging, limited-angle problem is a quite practical and important issue. In this paper, an iterative reprojection-reconstruction (IRR) algorithm using a modified Papoulis-Gerchberg (PG) iterative scheme is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Yuli Sun , Jinxu Tao , Conggui Liu

With the availability of more powerful computing processors, iterative reconstruction algorithms have recently been successfully implemented as an approach to achieving significant dose reduction in X-ray CT. In this report, we describe our…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 D. Trinca , Y. Zhong , Y. Wang , T. Mamyrbayev , E. Libin

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Rushil Anirudh , Hyojin Kim , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , K. Aditya Mohan , Kyle Champley , Timo Bremer

Set projection algorithms are a class of algorithms used in ptychography to help improve the quality of the reconstructed images. The set projection step is important because it helps to ensure that the reconstructed image satisfies the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Wenjie Mei , Andrew M. Maiden

The modern imaging techniques of Positron Emission Tomography and of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography are not only two of the most important tools for studying the functional characteristics of the brain, but they now also play a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Fokas , A. Iserles , V. Marinakis

Proton therapy is nowadays becoming a wide spread clinical practice in cancer therapy and sophisticated treatment planning systems are routinely used to exploit at best the ballistic properties of charged particles. The information on the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Braccini , A. Ereditato , I. Kreslo , U. Moser , C. Pistillo , P. Scampoli , S. Studer