Limited sinogram completion for transmission SPECT imaging

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 ...

Constrained sinogram restoration for limited-angle tomography

SPECT reconstruction with sub-sinogram acquisitions

Described herein are the advantages of using sub-sinograms for single photon emission computed tomography image reconstruction. A sub-sinogram is a sinogram acquired with an entire data acquisition protocol, but in a fraction of the total acquisition time. A total-sinogram is the summation of all sub-sinograms. Images can be reconstructed from the total-sinogram or from sub-sinograms and then b...

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...

Denoising of SPECT-Image Sinogram-Data Before Reconstruction

Nuclear medicine images have low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) due to several physical limitations which degrade the image quality considerably. In this study, the Gaussian filter and the patch confidence Gaussian filter (PCG) were used to improve the image quality for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). The new approach applies these filtering methods on the acquired 2D-projectio...