Computer tomography has become a most important area in biomedical imaging system to reconstruct 3D image. Several exact CT reconstruction algorithms, such as the generalized filtered-back projection and back projection-filtration methods and fan beam reconstruction algorithm have been developed to solve the long object problem. Although the well-known 3D Shepp–Logan phantom is often used to va...

In this paper a novel filtered back-projection algorithm for inversion of a discretized Radon transform is presented. It makes use of invariance properties possessed by both the Radon transform its dual. By switching to log-polar coordinates, both operators can be expressed in a displacement invariant manner. Explicit expressions for the corresponding transfer functions are calculated. Furtherm...

Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging noninvasive imaging technique with great potential for a wide range of biomedical imaging applications. However, with few-view data the filtered back-projection method will create streak artifacts. In this study, the regularized iterative weighted filtered back-projection method was applied to our photoacoustic imaging of the optical absorption in phantom fr...

In order to investigate the effect of the number of projections on digital tomosynthesis image quality, images were acquired over a 40 degree arc and sampled into sets of 2 to 41 projections used as input to three different reconstruction algorithms, namely the shift-and-add, Feldkamp-Davis-Kress filtered back projection algorithms, and the simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique. The v...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate how different iterative and filtered back projection kernels affect the computed tomography (CT) numbers and low contrast detectability. METHODS Five different scans were performed at 6 different tube potentials on the same Catphan 600 phantom using approximately the same dose level and otherwise identical settings. The scans were reconstructed ...