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In this paper we consider 3D axis-symmetric (AS) object reconstruction from single cone-beam x-ray projection data. Traditional x-ray CT fails to capture fleeting state of material due to the long time for data acquisition at all angles.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Shousheng Luo , Ruyue Meng , Suhua Wei , Jianfeng Cai , Xuecheng Tai , Yang Wang

We propose fast, exact and efficient algorithms for the convolution of two arbitrary functions on the sphere which speed up computations by a factor \order{\sqrt{N}} compared to present methods where $N$ is the number of pixels. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Krzysztof M. Gorski

Electron tomography has been studied in various fields. Various methods have been developed to align projection sets to construct ideally focused reconstruction. In this paper, we present how to align the projection set to distinguish…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Dongwook Kim , Kyungtaek Jun

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) offers advantages over conventional fan-beam CT in that it requires a shorter time and less exposure to obtain images. CBCT has found a wide variety of applications in patient positioning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 S. Kida , S. Kaji , K. Nawa , T. Imae , T. Nakamoto , S. Ozaki , T. Ohta , Y. Nozawa , K. Nakagawa

X-ray cone-beam computed tomography (CT) has the notable features such as high efficiency and precision, and is widely used in the fields of medical imaging and industrial non-destructive testing, but the inherent imaging degradation…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hua Zhang , Kuidong Huang , Yikai Shi , Zhe Xu

Conebeam CT using a circular trajectory is quite often used for various applications due to its relative simple geometry. For conebeam geometry, Feldkamp, Davis and Kress algorithm is regarded as the standard reconstruction method, but this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Yoseob Han , Junyoung Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Since X-ray tomography is now widely adopted in many different areas, it becomes more crucial to find a robust routine of handling tomographic data to get quality reconstructed images. Though there are several existing techniques, it seems…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Kyungtaek Jun , Seokhwan Yoon , Kyu Kwon

The aim of this research is to reconstruct the 3D X-ray refractive index gradient maps by the proposed vector Radon transform and its inverse, assuming that the small-angle deviation condition is met. Theoretical analyses show that the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Keliang Liao , Qili He , Panyun Li , Liang Luo , Peiping Zhu

In the context of large-angle cone-beam tomography (CBCT), we present a practical iterative reconstruction (IR) scheme designed for rapid convergence as required for large datasets. The robustness of the reconstruction is provided by the…

Due to its wide field of view, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is plagued by large amounts of scatter, where attenuated photons hit the detector, and corrupt the linear models used for reconstruction. Given that one can generate a good…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Jonathan Mason , Alessandro Perelli , William Nailon , Mike Davies

This article extends the author's past work [Inv. Probl. Imaging, 10:2 (2016), 433--459] to attenuated X-ray transforms, where the attenuation is complex-valued and only depends on position. We give a positive and constructive answer to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-03 François Monard

A method for photoacoustic tomography is presented that uses circular integrals of the acoustic wave for the reconstruction of a three-dimensional image. Image reconstruction is a two-step process: In the first step data from a stack of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-12-06 G. Zangerl , O. Scherzer , M. Haltmeier

The inverse source problem arising in photoacoustic tomography and in several other coupled-physics modalities is frequently solved by iterative algorithms. Such algorithms are based on the minimization of a certain cost functional. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Andreas Hauptmann , Leonid Kunyansky , Jenni Poimala

Many man-made objects are characterised by a shape that is symmetric along one or more planar directions. Estimating the location and orientation of such symmetry planes can aid many tasks such as estimating the overall orientation of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Tommaso Cavallari

We propose a method to achieve the geometric calibration of cone-beam imaging and delivery systems in radiation therapy; our approach applies to devices where an X-ray source and a flat-panel detector, facing each other, move in circular…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evangelos Matsinos , Wolfgang Kaissl

X-ray phase-contrast imaging has the potential to improve image contrast with lower dose by probing an object's refractive properties as well as its absorptive properties. To reconstruct a phase-contrast image from a raw dataset, a phase…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Giavanna Jadick , Patrick La Rivière

We investigate the inverse source problem for the wave equation, arising in photo- and thermoacoustic tomography. There exist quite a few theoretically exact inversion formulas explicitly expressing solution of this problem in terms of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Ngoc Do , Leonid Kunyansky

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) systems, with their flexibility, present a promising avenue for direct point-of-care medical imaging, particularly in critical scenarios such as acute stroke assessment. However, the integration of CBCT…

We consider the imaging problem of the reconstruction of a three-dimensional object via optical diffraction tomography under the assumptions of the Born approximation. Our focus lies in the situation that a rigid object performs an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Robert Beinert , Michael Quellmalz

In this paper, we investigate the relations between the Radon and weighted divergent beam and cone transforms. Novel inversion formulas are derived for the latter two. The weighted cone transform arises, for instance, in image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Peter Kuchment , Fatma Terzioglu