A novel alternative algorithm for limited angle tomography

Xiaoqiang Lu, Yuan Yuan, Pingkun Yan, Xuelong Li

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Abstract

This paper studies incomplete data problems of circular cone-beam computed tomography, which occur frequently in medical imaging and industrial imaging. The incomplete data problems in which projection data are only available in an angular range can be attributed to the limited angle tomography. Limited angle tomography is a severely ill-posed inverse problem. In recent years, image reconstruction based on total variation (TV) was employed to reduce the problem and gave better performance on edge-preserving reconstruction. However, the artificial parameter can only be determined through considerable experimentation. In this paper, an alternating minimization method based on TV is proposed to reduce the data insufficiency in tomographic imaging. This novel alternating minimization method provides a robust and effective reconstruction without any artificial parameter in the iterative processes, by using the TV as a multiplicative constraint. The results demonstrate that this new reconstruction method brings satisfactory performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICIP 2011
Subtitle of host publication2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
Pages409-412
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011 - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 11 Sep 201114 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2011
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityBrussels
Period11/09/1114/09/11

Keywords

  • Alternating minimization
  • Limited angle tomography
  • Total variation

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