Limited-Angle CT Reconstruction with Generative Adversarial Network Sinogram Inpainting and Unsupervised Artifact Removal

TGV sinogram inpainting for limited angle tomography

X-ray computed tomography (CT) plays a very important role in daily biomedical practice for diagnosis and therapy, and in materials science for accurate data analysis and quality control. Besides accurate and robust image reconstruction, there is a growing interest in methods for limited angle tomography. The idea is to reduce the X-ray dose delivered to patients or to cope with physical angle ...

Dictionary learning based sinogram inpainting for CT sparse reconstruction

In CT (computed tomography), reconstruction from undersampling projection data is often ill-posed and suffers from severe artifact in the reconstructed images. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes a sinogram inpainting method based on recently rising sparse representation technology. In this approach, a dictionary learning based inpainting is used to estimate the missing projection dat...

Lose The Views: Limited Angle CT Reconstruction via Implicit Sinogram Completion

Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180° view of the object. This is impractical in a limited angle scenario, when the viewing angle is less than 180°, which can occur due to different factors including restr...

Gaussian diffusion sinogram inpainting for X-ray CT metal artifact reduction

BACKGROUND Metal objects implanted in the bodies of patients usually generate severe streaking artifacts in reconstructed images of X-ray computed tomography, which degrade the image quality and affect the diagnosis of disease. Therefore, it is essential to reduce these artifacts to meet the clinical demands. METHODS In this work, we propose a Gaussian diffusion sinogram inpainting metal arti...

Constrained sinogram restoration for limited-angle tomography