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Pencil x-ray beam imaging provides superior spatial resolution than other imaging geometries like sheet beam and cone beam geometries due to the illumination of a line instead of an area or volume. However, the pencil beam geometry suffers…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Ignacio O. Romero , Changqing Li

Reducing scan times, radiation dose, and enhancing image quality for lower-performance scanners, are critical in low-dose PET imaging. Deep learning techniques have been investigated for PET image denoising. However, existing models have…

Purpose: The purpose of the work was experimental investigations of the breast dose distributions with adaptive filtration. Adaptive filtration reduces detector dynamic range and improves image quality. The adaptive filter with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Polad M. Shikhaliev

Delivering sub-micrometer particles to an intense x-ray focus is a crucial aspect of single-particle diffractive-imaging experiments at x-ray free-electron lasers. Enabling direct visualization of sub-micrometer aerosol particle streams…

X-ray diffraction tomography (XDT) resolves spatially-variant XRD profiles within macroscopic objects, and provides improved material contrast compared to the conventional transmission-based computed tomography (CT). However, due to the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 Zheyuan Zhu , Alexander Katsevich , Shuo Pang

Purpose: Digital phantoms are one of the key components of virtual imaging trials (VITs) that aim to assess and optimize new medical imaging systems and algorithms. However, these phantoms vary in their voxel resolution, appearance, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Amar Kavuri , Mini Das

Beam damage is a major limitation in electron microscopy that becomes increasingly severe at higher resolution. One possible route to circumvent radiation damage, which forms the basis for single-particle electron microscopy and related…

A theory of random-matrix bases is presented, including expressions for orthogonality, completeness and the random-matrix synthesis of arbitrary matrices. This is applied to ghost imaging as the realization of a random-basis reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-27 David Ceddia , David M. Paganin

Deep neural networks have received considerable attention in clinical imaging, particularly with respect to the reduction of radiation risk. Lowering the radiation dose by reducing the photon flux inevitably results in the degradation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Khalid L. Alsamadony , Ertugrul U. Yildirim , Guenther Glatz , Umair bin Waheed , Sherif M. Hanafy

Depth of Field (DoF) in games is usually achieved as a post-process effect by blurring pixels in the sharp rasterized image based on the defined focus plane. This paper describes a novel real-time DoF technique that uses ray tracing with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yu Wei Tan , Nicholas Chua , Nathan Biette , Anand Bhojan

Signal models based on sparse representations have received considerable attention in recent years. On the other hand, deep models consisting of a cascade of functional layers, commonly known as deep neural networks, have been highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Xikai Yang , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar

The advent of computed tomography significantly improves patient health regarding diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning and verification. However, tomographic imaging escalates concomitant radiation doses to patients, inducing…

In view synthesis, a neural radiance field approximates underlying density and radiance fields based on a sparse set of scene pictures. To generate a pixel of a novel view, it marches a ray through the pixel and computes a weighted sum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Nikita Morozov , Denis Rakitin , Oleg Desheulin , Dmitry Vetrov , Kirill Struminsky

Low Dose Computed Tomography suffers from a high amount of noise and/or undersampling artefacts in the reconstructed image. In the current article, a Deep Learning technique is exploited as a regularization term for the iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Shabab Bazrafkan , Vincent Van Nieuwenhove , Joris Soons , Jan De Beenhouwer , Jan Sijbers

Sensitive to scattering from unresolved sample structures, the dark-field channel in full-field X-ray imaging provides complementary information to that offered by conventional attenuation and phase-contrast methods. A range of experimental…

In X-ray imaging, photons are transmitted through and absorbed by the subject, but are also scattered in significant quantities. Previous attempts to use scattered photons for biological imaging used pencil or fan beam illumination. Here we…

To study radiotherapy-related adverse effects, detailed dose information (3D distribution) is needed for accurate dose-effect modeling. For childhood cancer survivors who underwent radiotherapy in the pre-CT era, only 2D radiographs were…

We present a new procedure rooted in deep learning to construct science images from data cubes collected by astronomical instruments using HxRG detectors in low-flux regimes. It improves on the drawbacks of the conventional algorithms to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-30 Guillaume Payeur , Étienne Artigau , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , René Doyon

We conducted a multi-institutional audit of dosimetric variability between FLASH and conventional dose rate (CONV) electron irradiations by using an anatomically realistic 3D-printed mouse phantom. A CT scan of a live mouse was used to…

This paper presents a novel optimization-based method for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging that aims to reconstruct hidden scenes under general setups with significantly reduced reconstruction time. In NLOS imaging, the visible surfaces of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hyunbo Shim , In Cho , Daekyu Kwon , Seon Joo Kim