Background Dental hardware produces streak artifacts on computed tomography (CT) images reconstructed with the standard weighted filtered back projection (wFBP) method. Purpose To perform a preliminary evaluation of an iterative metal artifact reduction (IMAR) technique to assess its ability to improve anatomic visualization over wFBP in patients with dental amalgam or other hardware. Mater...

This paper provides an extensive runtime, accuracy, and noise analysis of Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction algorithms using various High-Performance Computing (HPC) frameworks such as: “conventional” multi-core, multi threaded CPUs, Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), and DirectX or OpenGL graphics pipeline programming. The proposed algorithms exploit various built-in hardwired f...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Electrocardiogram-gated 4D-CTA is a promising technique allowing new insight into aneurysm pathophysiology and possibly improving risk prediction of cerebral aneurysms. Due to the extremely small pulsational excursions (<0.1 mm in diameter), exact segmentation of the aneurysms is of critical importance. In vitro examinations have shown improvement of the accuracy of vesse...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) using sparse projection views is often used to reduce the radiation dose. However, due to the insufficient projection views, a reconstruction approach using the filtered back projection (FBP) produces severe streaking artifacts. Recently, deep learning approaches using large receptive field neural networks such as U-net have demonstrated impressive performance for...

Cardiac C-arm CT is a promising technique that enables 3D cardiac image acquisition and real-time fluoroscopy on the same system. Retrospective ECG gating techniques have already been adapted from clinical cardiac CT that allow 3D reconstruction using retrospectively gated projection images of a multi-sweep C-arm CT scan according to the desired cardiac phase. However, it is known that retrospe...

We describe a quantitative fluorescence projection tomography technique which measures the 3-D fluorescence lifetime distribution in optically cleared specimens up 1 cm in diameter. This is achieved by acquiring a series of wide-field time-gated images at different relative time delays with respect to a train of excitation pulses, at a number of projection angles. For each time delay, the 3-D t...

In this paper we propose a new approach of tomographic image reconstruction using sinogram interpolation for a sparse projection data. In this term, sinogram interpolation is a process of converting a sampled projection to a higher sampling rate projection. By using interpolation, we construct a new projections within the range of set of projection, then we apply a filtered backprojection recon...

The problem of reconstructing a 3D source distribution from Compton scattered data can be separated into two tasks. First, the angular distribution of line projections at different observation points within the detector volume are reconstructed. Then, reconstruction techniques are applied to the resulting cone-beam projections to synthesize the 3D source distribution. This paper describes an an...

The Filtered Back-Projection (FBP) algorithm and its modified versions are the most important techniques for CT (Computerized tomography) reconstruction, however, it may produce aliasing degradation in the reconstructed images due to projection discretization. The general iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithms suffer from their heavy calculation burden and other drawbacks. In this paper, an i...