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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 Mask-ToF, a method to reduce flying pixels (FP) in time-of-flight (ToF) depth captures. FPs are pervasive artifacts which occur around depth edges, where light paths from both an object and its background are integrated over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Ilya Chugunov , Seung-Hwan Baek , Qiang Fu , Wolfgang Heidrich , Felix Heide

Patient motion during PET is inevitable. Its long acquisition time not only increases the motion and the associated artifacts but also the patient's discomfort, thus PET acceleration is desirable. However, accelerating PET acquisition will…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Bo Zhou , Yu-Jung Tsai , Jiazhen Zhang , Xueqi Guo , Huidong Xie , Xiongchao Chen , Tianshun Miao , Yihuan Lu , James S. Duncan , Chi Liu

Joint ptychography and tomography (JPT) is a recently developed framework that enables high-resolution reconstruction of 3D volumes with significantly relaxed constraints on probe overlap at adjacent scan positions. In ptychographic X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Azat M. Slyamov , Viktor Nikitin , Doğa Gürsoy , Rajmund Mokso , Jens W. Andreasen

For single source helical Computed Tomography (CT), both Filtered-Back Projection (FBP) and statistical iterative reconstruction have been investigated. However for dual source CT with flying focal spot (DS-FFS CT), statistical iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Xiao Wang , Robert D. MacDougall , Peng Chen , Charles A. Bouman , Simon K. Warfield

The analysis of multi-modality positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) images for computer aided diagnosis applications requires combining the sensitivity of PET to detect abnormal regions with anatomical localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ashnil Kumar , Michael Fulham , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Gating is commonly used in PET imaging to reduce respiratory motion blurring and facilitate more sophisticated motion correction methods. In the applications of low dose PET, however, reducing injection dose causes increased noise and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Bo Zhou , Yu-Jung Tsai , Chi Liu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based electrical properties tomography (EPT) is the quantification of the conductivity and permittivity of different tissues. These electrical properties can be obtained through different reconstruction…

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are subject to high levels of noise and distortions due to Multi-Path-Interference (MPI). While recent research showed that 2D neural networks are able to outperform previous traditional State-of-the-Art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Michael Schelling , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Efforts to push the spatiotemporal imaging-resolution limits of femtosecond (fs) laser-driven ultrafast electron microscopes (UEMs) to the combined angstrom-fs range will benefit from stable sources capable of generating high bunch charges.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-25 Jialiang Chen , Simon A. Willis , David J. Flannigan

The small time gap of synchrotron radiation in conventional multi-bunch mode (100-500MHz) is prohibitive for time-of-flight (ToF) based electron spectroscopy. Even the new generation of delay-line detectors with improved time resolution…

Direct reconstruction of positron emission tomography (PET) data using deep neural networks is a growing field of research. Initial results are promising, but often the networks are complex, memory utilization inefficient, produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 William Whiteley , Vladimir Panin , Chuanyu Zhou , Jorge Cabello , Deepak Bharkhada , Jens Gregor

We consider X-ray coherent scatter imaging, where the goal is to reconstruct momentum transfer profiles (spectral distributions) at each spatial location from multiplexed measurements of scatter. Each material is characterized by a unique…

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

Tau positron emission tomography (tau-PET) is an important in vivo biomarker of Alzheimer's disease, but its cost, limited availability, and acquisition burden restrict broad clinical use. This work proposes an interpretable multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Agamdeep S. Chopra , Caitlin Neher , Tianyi Ren , Juampablo E. Heras Rivera , Hesam Jahanian , Mehmet Kurt

The TT-PET collaboration is developing a small animal TOF-PET scanner based on silicon detectors featuring 30 ps RMS time resolution and intended to be inserted in an existing MRI scanner. The TT-PET scanner makes use of a stack of layers…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a powerful medical imaging technique, but the design and evaluation of new PET scanner technologies present significant challenges. The process is typically divided into three major stages: 1. detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-30 J. Renner , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , R. Soleti

Objective: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has been a commonly used imaging modality in broad clinical applications. One of the most important tradeoffs in PET imaging is between image quality and radiation dose: high image quality comes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Shaoyan Pan , Elham Abouei , Junbo Peng , Joshua Qian , Jacob F Wynne , Tonghe Wang , Chih-Wei Chang , Justin Roper , Jonathon A Nye , Hui Mao , Xiaofeng Yang

Objective. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has the potential to improve contrast, reduce artifacts and the ability to perform material decomposition in advanced imaging applications. The increased number or measurements results with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Alessandro Perelli , Suxer Alfonso Garcia , Alexandre Bousse , Jean-Pierre Tasu , Nikolaos Efthimiadis , Dimitris Visvikis

We present a MATLAB package for reconstructing sound-speed images from transmission ultrasound data. The package is based on two-point ray tracing and implements two complementary inversion strategies for image reconstruction. The first is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ashkan Javaherian