ClearPET (TM) Neuro is a small-animal positron emission tomography (PET) scanner dedicated to brain studies on rats and primates. The design of ClearPET (TM) Neuro leads to a specific geometric sensitivity, characteri...
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ClearPET (TM) Neuro is a small-animal positron emission tomography (PET) scanner dedicated to brain studies on rats and primates. The design of ClearPET (TM) Neuro leads to a specific geometric sensitivity, characterized by inhomogeneous and, depending on the measurement setup, even incompletedata. With respect to reconstruction techniques, homogeneous and complete data sets are a 'must' for analytical reconstruction methods, whereas iterative methods take the geometrical sensitivity into account during the reconstruction process. Nevertheless, here a homogeneous geometric sensitivity over the field of view is highly desirable. Therefore, this contribution aims at studying the impact of different scanner geometries and measurement setups on the geometric sensitivity. A data set of coincident events is computed for certain settings that contains each possible crystal combination once. The lines of response are rebinned into normalizing sinograms and backprojected into sensitivity images. Both, normalizing sinograms and sensitivity images mirror the geometric sensitivity and therefore, provide information which setting enables most complete and homogeneous data sets. An optimal measurement setup and scanner geometry in terms of homogeneous geometric sensitivity is found by analyzing the sensitivity images. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
imagereconstructionfrom partial k-space is an important matter in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The previously proposed methods are unable to cope with truncation artifacts without degrading' image quality. ...
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imagereconstructionfrom partial k-space is an important matter in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The previously proposed methods are unable to cope with truncation artifacts without degrading' image quality. We present a method that is particularly suitable for reconstructing magnetic resonance (MR) images from partial k-space by reducing substantially truncation artifacts while maintaining the spatial resolution of the image. The proposed method is based on the use of a so-called singularity function representation determined by singular points and singularity degrees. With this model, our strategy consists in restricting the singularity degrees within some dynamic range, beyond which the corresponding singular points are set to zero. The proposed method was evaluated on both simulated and human brain MR data. The results showed that this new strategy has significantly improved the reconstruction quality of partial k-space data. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
Iterative reconstruction methods are commonly used to obtain images with high resolution and good signal-to-noise ratio in nuclear imaging. The aim of this work was to develop a scalable, fast, cluster based, fully 3-...
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Iterative reconstruction methods are commonly used to obtain images with high resolution and good signal-to-noise ratio in nuclear imaging. The aim of this work was to develop a scalable, fast, cluster based, fully 3-D iterative imagereconstruction package for our small animal PET camera, the miniPET. The reconstruction package is developed to determine the 3-D radioactivity distribution from list mode type of data sets and it can also simulate noise-free projections of digital phantoms. We separated the system matrix generation and the fully 3-D iterative reconstruction process. As the detector geometry is fixed for a given camera, the system matrix describing this geometry is calculated only once and used for every imagereconstruction, making the process much faster. The Poisson and the random noise sensitivity of the ML-EM iterative algorithm were studied for our small animal PET system with the help of the simulation and reconstruction tool. The reconstruction tool has also been tested with data collected by the miniPET from a line and a cylinder shaped phantom and also a rat. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
Exact photoacoustic tomography requires scanning over a 4 pi solid angle in 3D. The ultrasound detection window, however, is often limited, which makes a full scan impossible. For example, when a boundary lies closely...
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(纸本)9780819465504
Exact photoacoustic tomography requires scanning over a 4 pi solid angle in 3D. The ultrasound detection window, however, is often limited, which makes a full scan impossible. For example, when a boundary lies closely to an object, the scanning region can cover only less than 4 pi in 3D. Because of incomplete information, the resolution, SNR, and fidelity of the resulting image deteriorate. Boundaries, however, can be used to our advantage;we proposed post-processing algorithms in imagereconstruction to make partially scanned data complete. Here, we show the efficacy of the post-processing algorithms with both numerical and experimental results. Indeed, the algorithms can improve the resolution, SNR, and fidelity.
Iterative imagereconstruction for the Compton camera is computationally challenging since the projection and backprojection operations are performed on conical surfaces rather than along straight lines and there are ...
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Iterative imagereconstruction for the Compton camera is computationally challenging since the projection and backprojection operations are performed on conical surfaces rather than along straight lines and there are many possible combinations of positions and energy measurements. Here, we note that implementing a computationally efficient projector-backprojector pair with good accuracy is an important factor to be considered in imagereconstruction. In this study, two different approaches to conical surface integration were investigated for rapid calculations of projection and backprojection in 3D reconstruction;the ellipse-stacking method (ESM) and the ray-tracing method (RTM). Our experimental results indicated that while both methods produced equivalent reconstruction accuracies, RTM performed better than ESM in both computation time per iteration and total number of iterations for convergence. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
image segmentation is one of the most important steps leading to the analysis of processed data. Its main goal is to divide an image into parts that have a strong correlation with Areas of the Real world contained in ...
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(纸本)9781424407156
image segmentation is one of the most important steps leading to the analysis of processed data. Its main goal is to divide an image into parts that have a strong correlation with Areas of the Real world contained in the image. image Segmentation by Mathematical Morphology is a Methodology based upon the notions of reconstruction and Gradient method of an image. reconstruction is a very useful operator for image Filtering, Segmentation, and Feature Extraction. In this paper a new Method is proposed based on the notion of regional maxima and makes use of Sequential reconstruction algorithm and Morphological Gradient The present paper has two main sections, first is reconstruction of original imagefrom blurred image by eliminating noise. Second is segment the image by applying Morphological gradient method this method produced good result over conventional methods.
image restoration is one of classical inverse problems in image processing and computer vision, which consists of the recovering information about the original imagefromincomplete or degraded data. In this paper, we...
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image restoration is one of classical inverse problems in image processing and computer vision, which consists of the recovering information about the original imagefromincomplete or degraded data. In this paper, we consider the problem of reduction of ringing that appears after image resampling. We introduce a novel method for image restoration, based on a quasi-solution method for a compact set of functions with bounded total variation. It is an alternative approach to using a total variation functional as a stabilizer in Tikhonov regularization, and it does not oversmooth or displace edges.
Computed tomography (CT) is a technique for imaging cross-sections of an object using a series of X-ray Measurements taken from different angles around the object. It has been widely applied in diagnostic medicine and...
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(纸本)9781424410651
Computed tomography (CT) is a technique for imaging cross-sections of an object using a series of X-ray Measurements taken from different angles around the object. It has been widely applied in diagnostic medicine and industrial non-destructive testing. Traditional CT reconstructions are limited by many kinds of artifacts, and they give dissatisfactory image. To reduce image noise and artifacts, the theory of maximum likelihood estimation is extended to v-ray scan in this paper, and expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is studied and implemented for imagereconstruction of X-ray CT (XCT). Then the point spread function and modulation transfer function of the EM algorithm is analyzed. Last experimental results with computer simulated data and real CT data are presented to verify our method is effective.
We propose a global optimization framework for 3D shape reconstructionfrom sparse noisy 3D measurements frequently encountered in range scanning, sparse feature-based stereo, and shape-from-X. In contrast to earlier ...
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(纸本)9781424411795
We propose a global optimization framework for 3D shape reconstructionfrom sparse noisy 3D measurements frequently encountered in range scanning, sparse feature-based stereo, and shape-from-X. In contrast to earlier local or banded optimization methods for shape fitting, we compute global optimum in the whole volume removing dependence on initial guess and sensitivity to numerous local minima. Our global method is based on two main ideas. First, we suggest a new regularization functional with a data alignment term that maximizes the number of (weakly-oriented) data points contained by a surface while allowing for some measurement errors. Second, we propose a touch-expand algorithm for finding a minimum cut on a huge 3D grid using an automatically adjusted band This overcomes prohibitively high memory cost of graph cuts when computing globally optimal surfaces at high-resolution. Our results for sparse or incomplete 3D datafrom laser scanning and passive multi-view stereo are robust to noise, outliers, missing parts, and varying sampling density.
The recurrent presence of clouds and clouds shadows in aerial or remotely sensed images is an awkward problem that severely limits the regular exploitations capability of these images. Removing cloud-contaminated port...
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(纸本)9780819469236
The recurrent presence of clouds and clouds shadows in aerial or remotely sensed images is an awkward problem that severely limits the regular exploitations capability of these images. Removing cloud-contaminated portions of the image and then filling in the missing data represent an important photo editing cumbersome task. The intent of this work is to propose a technique for the reconstruction of areas obscured by clouds in a remotely sensed image. To this end, a new efficient reconstruction technique for missing data synthesis is presented. This technique is based on the Bandelet transform and the multiscale geometrical grouping. It consists of two steps. In the first step, the curves of geometric flow of different zones of the image are determined by using the Bandelet transform with multiscale grouping. This step allows a better representation of the multiscale geometry of the image's structures. Having well represented this geometry, the information inside the cloud-contaminated zone is synthesized by propagating the geometrical flow curves inside that zone. This step is accomplished by minimizing, a functional whose role is to reconstruct the missing or cloud contaminated zone independently of the size and topology of the reconstruction or inpainting domain. Thus, the flow lines are well tied inside the cloud-contaminated zone. The proposed technique is illustrated with some examples on processing multispectral aerial images. The obtained results are compared with those obtained by other clouds removal techniques.
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