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Dark-field X-ray imaging is a novel modality which visualises scattering from unresolved microstructure. Most dark-field imaging techniques rely on crystals or structured illumination, but recent work has shown that dark-field effects are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Jannis N. Ahlers , Konstantin M. Pavlov , Marcus J. Kitchen , Kaye S. Morgan

This is a preprint. The latest version has been published here: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.230275 Purpose: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is an effective way to reduce dose by lowering the total number of views acquired,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Johannes Thalhammer , Manuel Schultheiss , Tina Dorosti , Tobias Lasser , Franz Pfeiffer , Daniela Pfeiffer , Florian Schaff

This paper presents a soft-label anonymous gastric X-ray image distillation method based on a gradient descent approach. The sharing of medical data is demanded to construct high-accuracy computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Guang Li , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Virtual histology is an emerging field in biomedicine that enables three-dimensional tissue visualization using X-ray micro-computed tomography. However, the method still lacks the specificity of conventional histology, in which parts of…

With the development of deep learning, medical image processing has been widely used to assist clinical research. This paper focuses on the denoising problem of low-dose computed tomography using deep learning. Although low-dose computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhilin Guan , Wei Zhang

Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted more and more attention in routine clinical diagnosis assessment, therapy planning, etc., which can reduce the dose of X-ray radiation to patients. However, the noise caused by low X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Zhicheng Zhang , Lequan Yu , Xiaokun Liang , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

The x-ray near-field speckle-scanning concept is an approach recently introduced to obtain absorption, phase, and dark-field images of a sample. In this paper, we present ways of recovering from a sample its ultrasmall-angle x-ray…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-24 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

Grating interferometer is a state of art x-ray imaging approach, which can simultaneously acquire information of x-ray attenuation, phase shift, and small angle scattering. This approach is very sensitive to micro-structural variation and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 Wenxiang Cong , Yan Xi , Ge Wang

Classical methods for X-ray computed tomography are based on the assumption that the X-ray source intensity is known, but in practice, the intensity is measured and hence uncertain. Under normal operating conditions, when the exposure time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Hari Om Aggrawal , Martin Skovgaard Andersen , Sean Rose , Emil Y. Sidky

X-ray imaging is indispensable in medical diagnostics, yet its use is tightly regulated due to potential health risks. To mitigate radiation exposure, recent research focuses on generating novel views from sparse inputs and reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Feiran Wang , Jiachen Tao , Junyi Wu , Haoxuan Wang , Bin Duan , Kai Wang , Zongxin Yang , Yan Yan

Directional dark-field imaging is an emerging x-ray modality that is sensitive to unresolved anisotropic scattering from sub-pixel sample microstructures. A single-grid imaging set-up can be used to capture dark-field images by looking at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Michelle K Croughan , Ying Ying How , Allan Pennings , Kaye S Morgan

We fine-tuned a foundational stable diffusion model using X-ray scattering images and their corresponding descriptions to generate new scientific images from given prompts. However, some of the generated images exhibit significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Zhuowen Zhao , Xiaoya Chong , Tanny Chavez , Alexander Hexemer

Ring artifacts in computed tomography images, arising from the undesirable responses of detector units, significantly degrade image quality and diagnostic reliability. To address this challenge, we propose a dual-domain regularization model…

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Magnetic particle imaging is a promising medical imaging technique. Applying changing magnetic fields to tracer material injected into the object under investigation results in a change in magnetization. Measurement of related induced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Stephanie Blanke , Christina Brandt

X-ray ptychography utilizes overlapping illuminations to reconstruct the object's phase and absorption signal with spatial resolutions much smaller than the focus size. Usually, the illumination overlap is chosen to be between 50% and 60%…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-29 Felix Wittwer , Peter Modregger

Low-Dose computer tomography (LDCT) is an ideal alternative to reduce radiation risk in clinical applications. Although supervised-deep-learning-based reconstruction methods have demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Feng Wang , Renfang Wang , Hong Qiu

A standard dose of radioactive tracer must be delivered into the patients body to obtain high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images for diagnostic purposes, which raises the risk of radiation harm. A reduced tracer dose, on the…

Blur in X-ray radiographs not only reduces the sharpness of image edges but also reduces the overall contrast. The effective blur in a radiograph is the combined effect of blur from multiple sources such as the detector panel, X-ray source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 K. Aditya Mohan , Robert M. Panas , Jefferson A. Cuadra

X-ray Fluorescence Ghost Imaging (XRF-GI) was recently demonstrated for x-ray lab sources. It has the potential to reduce acquisition time and deposited dose by choosing their trade-off with spatial resolution, while alleviating the…

We demonstrate a strategy for simulating wide-range X-ray scattering patterns, which spans the small- and wide scattering angles as well as the scattering angles typically used for Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis. Such simulated…