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Reconstructing images from downsampled and noisy measurements, such as MRI and low dose Computed Tomography (CT), is a mathematically ill-posed inverse problem. We propose an easy-to-use reconstruction method based on Expectation…

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This work introduces a new efficient iterative solver for the reconstruction of real-time cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), which is based on the Prior Image Constrained Compressed Sensing (PICCS) regularization and leverages the…

Objective: To perform a comprehensive comparative analysis of proton, helium-ion, and carbon-ion computed tomography (CT) as direct imaging modalities for hadron therapy treatment planning, focusing on Relative Stopping Power (RSP)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Zsófia Jólesz , Gábor Bíró , Gábor Papp , Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi

Iterative image reconstruction (IIR) algorithms in Computed Tomography (CT) are based on algorithms for solving a particular optimization problem. Design of the IIR algorithm, therefore, is aided by knowledge of the solution to the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Emil Y. Sidky , Jakob S. Jørgensen , Xiaochuan Pan

Proton radiography is a technique extensively used to resolve magnetic field structures in high energy density plasmas, revealing a whole variety of interesting phenomena such as magnetic reconnection and collisionless shocks found in…

Purpose: Iterative projection reconstruction algorithms are currently the preferred reconstruction method in proton computed tomography (pCT). However, due to inconsistencies in the measured data arising from proton energy straggling and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. N. Penfold , R. W. Schulte , Y. Censor , A. B. Rosenfeld

An image or volume of interest in positron emission tomography (PET) is reconstructed from pairs of gamma rays emitted from a radioactive substance. Many image reconstruction methods are based on estimation of pixels or voxels on some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-18 Azra Tafro , Damir Seršić , Ana Sović Kržić

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective method to reduce the radiation exposure in medical imaging. To reduce the severe streaking artifacts that occur in reconstructed images due to violation of the Nyquist/Shannon sampling…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Huiying Li , Yizhuang Song

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

Iterative ptychographic reconstruction algorithms are widely used for coherent diffractive imaging but can exhibit slow convergence under realistic experimental conditions. We propose a machine learning-augmented approach that accelerates…

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT), also known as optoacoustic tomography, is an emerging imaging technique that holds great promise for biomedical imaging. PACT is a hybrid imaging method that can exploit the strong endogenous…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Joemini Poudel , Yang Lou , Mark A. Anastasio

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

Iterative deblurring, notably the Richardson-Lucy algorithm with and without regularization, is analyzed in the context of nuclear and high-energy physics applications. In these applications, probability distributions may be discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Sinethemba Neliswa Mamba , Pawel Danielewicz

The high cost and low image quality traditionally associated with proton computed tomography (pCT) have prevented it from seeing significant use in clinical settings. A cheap, compact, high-density scintillating glass detector capable of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Adam Zieser , Ugur Akgun , Yasar Onel

A new iterative image reconstruction algorithm for electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is proposed that is based on iterative soft thresholding of a total variation penalty and adaptive reweighted compressive sensing. This algorithm…

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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…

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Ptychography is a powerful computational imaging technique that transforms a collection of low-resolution images into a high-resolution sample reconstruction. Unfortunately, algorithms that are currently used to solve this reconstruction…

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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The determination of relative stopping power (RSP) via proton computed tomography (pCT) of a patient is dependent in part on the knowledge of the incoming proton kinetic energies; the uncertainty in these energies is in turn determined by…

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