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We introduce single-shot X-ray tomography that aims to estimate the target image from a single cone-beam projection measurement. This linear inverse problem is extremely under-determined since the measurements are far fewer than the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Ajinkya Kadu , Tristan van Leeuwen , K. Joost Batenburg

Scanning X-ray nanodiffraction microscopy is a powerful technique for spatially resolving nanoscale structural morphologies by diffraction contrast. One of the critical challenges in experimental nanodiffraction data analysis is posed by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Aileen Luo , Tao Zhou , Martin V. Holt , Andrej Singer , Mathew J. Cherukara

A real-time image reconstruction method for scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is proposed. With an algorithm requiring only the center of mass (COM) of the diffraction pattern at one probe position at a time, it is able to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-15 Chu-Ping Yu , Thomas Friedrich , Daen Jannis , Sandra Van Aert , Johan Verbeeck

Precise alignment of the electron beam is critical for successful application of scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) to understanding materials at atomic level. Despite the success of aberration correctors, aberration…

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a well established clinical tool for functional imaging. A limitation of current SPECT systems is the use of mechanical collimation, where only a small fraction of the emitted photons is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Sunghwan Moon , Markus Haltmeier

We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) under a nonlinear forward model that accounts for exponential signal attenuation, a polychromatic X-ray source, general measurement noise (e.g., Poisson shot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Mengqi Lou , Kabir Aladin Verchand , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Ashwin Pananjady

We introduce a new rotationally invariant viewing angle classification method for identifying, among a large number of Cryo-EM projection images, similar views without prior knowledge of the molecule. Our rotationally invariant features are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-19 Zhizhen Zhao , Amit Singer

A Radon-type transform called a cone transform that assigns to a given function its integral over various sets of cones has arisen in the last decade in the context of the study of Compton cameras used in Single Photon Emission Computed…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Sunghwan Moon

Diffraction tomography is a widely used inverse scattering technique for quantitative imaging of weakly scattering media. In its conventional formulation, diffraction tomography assumes monochromatic plane wave illumination. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

The performance of an iterative reconstruction algorithm for X-ray tomography is strongly determined by the features of the used forward and backprojector. For this reason, a large number of studies has focused on the to design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Filippo Arcadu , Marco Stampanoni , Federica Marone

Global backprojection-convolution (GBC) is a recently developed theory for exact reconstruction in transmission cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). It is the first exact inversion theory that applies when the X-ray source points comprise…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Murdock Grewar , Glenn Myers , Andrew Kingston

To make full use of photocathode material and improve its quantum efficiency lifetime, it can be necessary to operate laser away from the cathode center in photoinjectors. In RF guns, the off-axis emitted beam will see a time-dependent RF…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Rui-Xuan Huang , Chad Mitchell , Qi-Ka Jia , Christos Papadopoulos , Fernando Sannibale

The Free-Electron Laser Laboratory at the University of Hawai`i has constructed and tested a scanning wire beam position monitor to aid the alignment and optimization of a high spectral brightness inverse-Compton scattering x-ray source.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Michael R. Hadmack , Eric B. Szarmes

In this paper we demonstrate a computational method to solve the inverse scattering problem for a star-shaped, smooth, penetrable obstacle in 2D. Our method is based on classical ideas from computational geometry. First, we approximate the…

Quantum imaging has a potential of enhancing precision of the object reconstruction by using quantum correlations of the imaging field. This is especially important for imaging requiring low-intensity fields up to the level of few-photons.…

This paper investigates the inverse biharmonic scattering problems of identifying the shape and location of the obstacle with phased and phaseless measurement data. A direct imaging method based on reverse time migration is proposed for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Tielei Zhu , Zhihao Ge

An approach is proposed for recovering affine correspondences (ACs) from orientation- and scale-invariant, e.g. SIFT, features. The method calculates the affine parameters consistent with a pre-estimated epipolar geometry from the point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Daniel Barath

Inverse wave scattering aims at determining the properties of an object using data on how the object scatters incoming waves. In order to collect information, sensors are put in different locations to send and receive waves from each other.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hanyang Jiang , Yuehaw Khoo , Haizhao Yang

A long-standing challenge in tomography is the 'missing wedge' problem, which arises when the acquisition of projection images within a certain angular range is restricted due to geometrical constraints. This incomplete dataset results in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-26 Chonghang Zhao , Mingyuan Ge , Xiaogang Yang , Yong S. Chu , Hanfei Yan

We present an algorithm for solving inverse problems on graphs analogous to those arising in diffuse optical tomography for continuous media. In particular, we formulate and analyze a discrete version of the inverse Born series, proving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Francis J. Chung , Anna C. Gilbert , Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland