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Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a rapidly emerging bioimaging modality that seeks to reconstruct an estimate of the absorbed optical energy density within an object. Conventional PACT image reconstruction methods assume a…

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We propose a model-based image reconstruction method for photoacoustic tomography(PAT) involving a novel form of regularization and demonstrate its ability to recover good quality images from significantly reduced size datasets. The…

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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

Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Junyan Zhang , Mengxiao Geng , Pinhuang Tan , Yi Liu , Zhili Liu , Bin Huang , Qiegen Liu

We investigate resolution in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). Using Shannon theory, we investigate the theoretical resolution limit of sparse view PAT theoretically, and empirically demonstrate that all reconstruction methods used exceed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Markus Haltmeier , Daniel Obmann , Karoline Felbermayer , Florian Hinterleitner , Peter Burgholzer

In this article we study the inverse problem of thermoacoustic tomography (TAT) on a medium with attenuation represented by a time- convolution (or memory) term, and whose consideration is motivated by the modeling of ultrasound waves in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

Priors are essential for reconstructing images from noisy and/or incomplete measurements. The choice of the prior determines both the quality and uncertainty of recovered images. We propose turning score-based diffusion models into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Berthy T. Feng , Jamie Smith , Michael Rubinstein , Huiwen Chang , Katherine L. Bouman , William T. Freeman

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a novel and promising technology in hybrid medical imaging that involves generating acoustic waves in the object of interest by stimulating electromagnetic energy. The acoustic wave is measured outside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Minam Moon , Injo Hur , Sunghwan Moon

Photoacoustic tomography seeks to reconstruct an acoustic initial pressure distribution from the measurement of the ultrasound waveforms. Conventional methods assume a-prior knowledge of the sound speed distribution, which practically is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Hongming Shan , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang , Yang Yang

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is a recent hybrid imaging modality that couples optical tomography with ultrasound imaging to achieve high resolution imaging of optical properties of scattering media. Image reconstruction in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Tian Ding , Kui Ren , Sarah Vallelian

Photo-acoustic tomography is a newly developed hybrid imaging modality that combines a high-resolution modality with a high-contrast modality. We analyze the reconstruction of diffusion and absorption parameters in an elliptic equation and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Jie Chen , Yang Yang

We investigate the inverse problem of recovering an initial source for the wave equation with fractional attenuation, motivated by photoacoustic tomography (PAT). The attenuation is modeled by a Caputo fractional derivative of order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (qPAT) is an imaging technique aimed at estimating chromophore concentrations inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic propagation. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Hwan Goh , Timo Lahivaara , Tanja Tarvainen , Aki Pulkkinen , Owen Dillon , Ruanui Nicholson , Jari Kaipio

Multispectral photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an imaging modality that utilizes the photoacoustic effect to achieve non-invasive and high-contrast imaging of internal tissues. However, the hardware cost and computational demand of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yutian Zhong , Xiaoming Zhang , Zongxin Mo , Shuangyang Zhang , Wufan Chen , Li Qi

In most photoacoustic (PA) measurements, variations in speed-of-sound (SOS) of the subject are neglected under the assumption of acoustic homogeneity. Biological tissue with spatially heterogeneous SOS cannot be accurately reconstructed…

Most reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic imaging assume that the pressure field is measured by ultrasound sensors placed on a detection surface. However, such sensors do not measure pressure exactly due to their non-uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Sebastian Acosta

Limited-Angle Computed Tomography (LACT) is a challenging inverse problem where missing angular projections lead to incomplete sinograms and severe artifacts in the reconstructed images. While recent learning-based methods have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Jiaqi Guo , Santiago López-Tapia

Compressed sensing (CS) is a promising approach to reduce the number of measurements in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) while preserving high spatial resolution. This allows to increase the measurement speed and to reduce system costs.…

Solving ill-posed inverse problems requires careful formulation of prior beliefs over the signals of interest and an accurate description of their manifestation into noisy measurements. Handcrafted signal priors based on e.g. sparsity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Hans van Gorp , Faik C. Meral , Junseob Shin , Jason Yu , Jean-Luc Robert , Ruud J. G. van Sloun