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Accurate Ray Tracing and Least Square Reconstruction Algorithms for Geotomographic Imaging.
1988-01-01

An improvement of the geotomography technique is presented. It includes a data collection model, a ray-tracing algorithm, a least squares reconstruction algorithm, and application of a selective weighting smoothing window.

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An evaluation of three algorithms for reconstructing images from data with missing projections
1988-02-01

Three iterative reconstruction algorithms for reconstructing images from tomographic data with missing projections are evaluated. One algorithm iteratively minimizes a squared error criterion, the other two, both transform algorithms, estimate the missing projections by placing constraints on ...

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3
IDeC(k): A new velocity reconstruction algorithm on arbitrarily polygonal staggered meshes
2011-07-01

We propose a novel algorithm for velocity reconstruction from staggered data on arbitrary polygonal staggered meshes. The formulation of the new algorithm is based on a constant polynomial reconstruction approach in conjunction with an iterative defect correction method and is referred to as the IDeC(k) ...

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4
Image reconstruction method for a two-layer tissue structure accounts for chest-wall effects in breast imaging
2008-01-01

We develop a new tomographic imaging reconstruction algorithm for a two-layer tissue structure. Simulations and phantom experiments show more accurate reconstruction of target optical properties compared with those results obtained from a semi-infinite tissue model for layered structures. This improvement is mainly ...

PubMed Central

5
Advancements to the planogram frequency�distance rebinning algorithm
2010-03-25

In this paper we consider the task of image reconstruction in positron emission tomography (PET) with the planogram frequency�distance rebinning (PFDR) algorithm. The PFDR algorithm is a rebinning algorithm for PET systems with panel detectors. The algorithm is derived in the planogram ...

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6
Advancements to the planogram frequency-distance rebinning algorithm
2010-04-01

In this paper we consider the task of image reconstruction in positron emission tomography (PET) with the planogram frequency-distance rebinning (PFDR) algorithm. The PFDR algorithm is a rebinning algorithm for PET systems with panel detectors. The algorithm is derived in the planogram ...

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7
Tilted plane Feldkamp type reconstruction algorithm for spiral cone beam CT
2005-11-15

An approximate image reconstruction method for spiral cone beam computed tomography (CT), called tilted plane Feldkamp type reconstruction algorithm (TPFR), is presented in this paper, which extends Feldkamp cone beam reconstruction algorithm to deal with its inaccuracy and artifact problems ...

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8
Reconstruction of Aircraft Target Trajectories from Historical Radar Plot Data.
1988-01-01

An algorithm which can accurately reconstruct an aircraft target trajectory from pre-recorded digital radar plots is described. Periodically recorded track data from a tracking system provide the coarse target position and speed estimates required by the ...

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9
An FBP image reconstruction algorithm for x-ray differential phase contrast CT.
2008-03-18

Most recently, a novel data acquisition method has been proposed and experimentally implemented for x-ray differential phase contrast computed tomography (DPC-CT), in which a conventional x-ray tube and a Talbot-Lau type interferometer were utilized in data acquisition. The divergent nature of the data acquisition system requires a divergent-beam image reconstruction ...

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10
An FBP image reconstruction algorithm for x-ray differential phase contrast CT
2008-03-18

Most recently, a novel data acquisition method has been proposed and experimentally implemented for x-ray differential phase contrast computed tomography (DPC-CT), in which a conventional x-ray tube and a Talbot-Lau type interferometer were utilized in data acquisition. The divergent nature of the data acquisition system requires a divergent-beam image reconstruction ...

PubMed Central

11
Persistent Ocean Monitoring with Underwater Gliders: Towards Accurate Reconstruction of Dynamic Ocean Processes

Persistent Ocean Monitoring with Underwater Gliders: Towards Accurate Reconstruction of Dynamic gliders to persistently monitor a patch of ocean. The algorithms address a pressing need among ocean. The algorithms were tested during sea trials on an underwater glider operating off the coast of southern

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12
DART: A Practical Reconstruction Algorithm for Discrete Tomography.
2011-03-24

In this paper, we present an iterative reconstruction algorithm for discrete tomography, called discrete algebraic reconstruction technique (DART). DART can be applied if the scanned object is known to consist of only a few different compositions, each corresponding to a constant gray value in the reconstruction. ...

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13
On the use of frequency-domain reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic imaging.
2011-08-01

We investigate the use of a frequency-domain reconstruction algorithm based on the nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) for photoacoustic imaging (PAI). Standard algorithms based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) are computationally efficient, but compromise the image quality by artifacts. In our previous work we have developed ...

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14
On the use of frequency-domain reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic imaging
2011-08-01

We investigate the use of a frequency-domain reconstruction algorithm based on the nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) for photoacoustic imaging (PAI). Standard algorithms based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) are computationally efficient, but compromise the image quality by artifacts. In our previous work we have developed ...

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15
Performance comparison between total variation (TV)-based compressed sensing and statistical iterative reconstruction algorithms
2009-10-01

Of all available reconstruction methods, statistical iterative reconstruction algorithms appear particularly promising since they enable accurate physical noise modeling. The newly developed compressive sampling/compressed sensing (CS) algorithm has shown the potential to ...

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Performance comparison between compressed sensing and statistical iterative reconstruction algorithms
2009-02-01

Of all available reconstruction methods, statistical iterative reconstruction algorithms appear particularly promising since they provide accurate physical noise modeling. The newly developed compressed sensing (CS) algorithm has shown the potential to accurately ...

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Accurate image reconstruction from few-view and limited-angle data in diffraction tomography
2008-07-01

We present a method for obtaining accurate image reconstruction from highly sparse data in diffraction tomography (DT). A practical need exists for reconstruction from few-view and limited-angle data, as this can greatly reduce required scan times in DT. Our method does this by minimizing the total variation (TV) of the estimated ...

PubMed Central

18
Dynamical inverse problem on a metric tree
2011-07-01

We consider the problem of reconstruction of the potential for the wave equation on a specific star graph using the dynamical Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Our algorithm is based on the boundary control method. We reduce the problem of reconstruction to a second kind Fredholm integral equation, the kernel and the right-hand side of which ...

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Limited data image reconstruction in optoacoustic tomography by constrained total variation minimization
2011-02-01

Optoacoustic Tomography (OAT) is an emerging hybrid imaging technique with great potential for a wide range of biomedical imaging applications. Assuming point-like transducers, analytic algorithms are available for image reconstruction, but they are applicable only when the measured data are densely sampled on an aperture that encloses the object. In many ...

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20
Photothermal depth profiling for multilayered Structures by particle swarm optimization
2011-01-01

This paper presents a method to reconstruct thermal conductivity depth profile of a layered medium using noisy photothermal data. The method tries to obtain an accurate reconstruction of discontinuous profile using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and total variation (TV) regularization. The ...

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Experimental reconstruction of a highly reflecting fiber Bragg grating by using spectral regularization and inverse scattering.
2007-10-01

We demonstrate experimentally, for the first time to our knowledge, a reconstruction of a highly reflecting fiber Bragg grating from its complex reflection spectrum by using a regularization algorithm. The regularization method is based on correcting the measured reflection spectrum at the Bragg zone frequencies and enables the ...

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22
Image reconstruction method for a two-layer tissue structure accounts for chest-wall effects in breast imaging.

We develop a new tomographic imaging reconstruction algorithm for a two-layer tissue structure. Simulations and phantom experiments show more accurate reconstruction of target optical properties compared with those results obtained from a semi-infinite tissue model for layered structures. This improvement is mainly ...

PubMed

23
Reconstruction of a uniform star object from interior x-ray data: uniqueness, stability and algorithm
2009-06-01

In this paper we consider the problem of reconstructing a two-dimensional star-shaped object of uniform density from truncated projections of the object. In particular, we prove that such an object is uniquely determined by its parallel projections sampled over a full ? angular range with a detector that only covers an interior field-of-view, even if the density of the object ...

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Figures of merit for comparing reconstruction algorithms with a volume-imaging PET scanner.
1994-03-01

For volume-imaging PET scanners, no septa are used to maximize the sensitivity by collecting events oblique to the scanner axis. We answer two questions: (i) how does the performance of an image reconstruction algorithm for a volume-imaging PET scanner depend on its general dimensions? and (ii) at what point is a three-dimensional (3D) ...

PubMed

25
Software Environment for the Implementation of Tomographic Reconstruction Algorithms Applied to Cases of Few Projections
2007-10-26

Usually tomographic procedure requires a set of projections around the object under study and a mathematical processing of such projections through reconstruction algorithms. An accurate reconstruction requires a proper number of projections (angular sampling) and a proper number of elements in each projection ...

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26
Utilizing side information in emission tomography
1984-02-01

Anatomical information derived from x-ray and NMR tomographic sections is useful for producing more accurate reconstructions of radioactivity distributions in the same section from emission-tomography data. Additionally, attenuation information acquired for calibration in emission tomography is necessary for producing accurate ...

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27
Three Dimensional Reconstruction Algorithm for Imaging ...
2004-07-01

... Title : Three Dimensional Reconstruction Algorithm for Imaging Pathophysiological Signal within ... tissue can be used to calculate and reconstruct ...

DTIC Science & Technology

28
Computer vision guided virtual craniofacial reconstruction.
2007-05-17

The problem of virtual craniofacial reconstruction from a sequence of computed tomography (CT) images is addressed and is modeled as a rigid surface registration problem. Two different classes of surface matching algorithms, namely the data aligned rigidity constrained exhaustive search (DARCES) algorithm and the iterative closest ...

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29
Comparison Study of Three Different Image Reconstruction Algorithms for MAT-MI
2009-10-20

We report a theoretical study on magnetoacoustic tomography with magnetic induction (MAT-MI). According to the description of signal generation mechanism using Green�s function, the acoustic dipole model was proposed to describe acoustic source excited by the Lorentz force. Using Green�s function, three kinds of reconstruction algorithms based on ...

PubMed Central

30
Quantitative evaluation of several partial Fourier reconstruction algorithms used in MRI.
1993-07-01

Partial Fourier reconstruction algorithms exploit the redundancy in magnetic resonance data sets so that half of the data is calculated during image reconstruction rather than acquired. The conjugate synthesis, Margosian, homodyne detection, Cuppen and POCS algorithms are evaluated using spatial frequency domain ...

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31
Accurate solution algorithms for incompressible multiphase flows
1994-10-19

A number of advances in modeling multiphase incompressible flow are described. These advances include high-order Godunov projection methods, piecewise linear interface reconstruction and tracking and the continuum surface force model. Examples are given.

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32
Improvement of the frequency-domain inverse Monte Carlo simulation
2010-11-01

This article aims at the optical property (absorption coefficient and scatter coefficient) reconstruction from the frequency-domain (FD) near-infrared diffuse measurement on small tissues, such as a cervix, for which inverse Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is the suitable choice. To achieve the fast and accurate reconstruction based on the ...

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33
A perspective matrix-based seed reconstruction algorithm with applications to C-arm based intra-operative dosimetry
2006-03-01

Currently available seed reconstruction algorithms are based on the assumption that accurate information about the imaging geometry is known. The assumption is valid for isocentric x-ray units such as radiotherapy simulators. However, the large majority of the clinics performing prostate brachytherapy today use C-arms for which imaging ...

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34
Reconstruction of 3D angiography data using the algebraic reconstruction technique (ART)
2001-07-01

Three-dimensional angiographic reconstrcution has emerged as an alternative to the traditional depiction of aneurysm angioarchitecture provided by 2-D perspective projections acquired by digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and fluoroscopy. One clinical application of research involving 3-D angiographic reconstruction is intraoperative localization and visualization during ...

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35
Adaptive-mesh-based algorithm for fluorescence molecular tomography using an analytical solution
2007-07-01

Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) has become an important method for in-vivo imaging of small animals. It has been widely used for tumor genesis, cancer detection, metastasis, drug discovery, and gene therapy. In this study, an algorithm for FMT is proposed to obtain accurate and fast reconstruction by combining an adaptive mesh ...

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36
An FDK-like cone-beam SPECT reconstruction algorithm fornon-uniform attenuated projections acquired using a circulartrajectory
2005-05-05

In this paper, Novikov's inversion formula of the attenuated two-dimensional (2D) Radon transform is applied to the reconstruction of attenuated fan-beam projections acquired with equal detector spacing and of attenuated cone-beam projections acquired with a flat planar detector and circular trajectory. The derivation of the fan-beam algorithm is ...

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37
Shape apperception and reconstruction of fiber grating intelligent flexible structure based on orthogonal curvatures
2010-08-01

with emphasis on the process of design and development method for the intelligent flexible structure distributed with orthogonal Fiber Bragg Grating sensor array, a fitting and reconstruction method based on orthogonal curvatures for three-dimensional curve and a method to make discrete curvatures continuous are analyzed with detailed algorithm processes ...

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38
Image reconstruction by deterministic compressed sensing with chirp matrices
2009-10-01

A recently proposed approach for compressed sensing, or compressive sampling, with deterministic measurement matrices made of chirps is applied to images that possess varying degrees of sparsity in their wavelet representations. The "fast reconstruction" algorithm enabled by this deterministic sampling scheme as developed by Applebaum et al. [1] produces ...

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39
Backprojection-filtration reconstruction without invoking a spatially varying weighting factor
2010-03-19

Purpose: To develop a backprojection-filtration (BPF) algorithm with improved noise properties over the existing BPF algorithm through utilizing (approximate) redundant information in circular cone-beam or fan-beam scans.Methods: The backprojection steps in the existing filtered-backprojection (FBP) and BPF algorithms for fan-beam and ...

PubMed Central

40
Improving inter-fragmentary alignment for virtual 3D reconstruction of highly fragmented bone fractures
2009-02-01

This article describes two new algorithms that, when integrated into an existing semi-automatic virtual bone fragment reconstruction system, allow for more accurate anatomic restoration. Furthermore, they spare the user the painstaking task of positioning each fragment in 3D, which can be extremely time consuming and difficult. The ...

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Spectrally-resolved Bioluminescence Tomography with the Third-order Simplified Spherical Harmonics Approximation
2009-10-09

Bioluminescence imaging has been extensively applied to in vivo small animal imaging. Quantitative three-dimensional bioluminescent source information obtained by using bioluminescence tomography can directly and much more accurately reflect biological changes as opposed to planar bioluminescence imaging. Preliminary simulated and experimental ...

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42
Spectrally resolved bioluminescence tomography with the third-order simplified spherical harmonics approximation
2009-11-01

Bioluminescence imaging has been extensively applied to in vivo small animal imaging. Quantitative three-dimensional bioluminescent source information obtained by using bioluminescence tomography can directly and much more accurately reflect biological changes as opposed to planar bioluminescence imaging. Preliminary simulated and experimental ...

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43
Accurate reconstruction for DNA sequencing by hybridization based on a constructive heuristic.

Sequencing by hybridization is a promising cost-effective technology for high-throughput DNA sequencing via microarray chips. However, due to the effects of spectrum errors rooted in experimental conditions, an accurate and fast reconstruction of original sequences has become a challenging problem. In the last decade, a variety of analyses and designs have ...

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44
Quantification of temporal resolution and its reliability in the context of TRI-PICCS and dual source CT
2011-03-01

Temporal resolution is an important issue especially in cardiac CT. To quantify it, often merely the time that is needed to acquire rawdata that contribute to a reconstructed image is used. In combination with more complex reconstruction algorithms, which aim to improve the temporal resolution, (e.g. TRI-PICCS) this procedure has ...

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45
Three-dimensional nonlinear image reconstruction for microwave biomedical imaging.
2004-03-01

Active microwave imaging has attracted significant interests in biomedical applications, in particular for breast imaging. However, the high electrical contrasts in breast tissue also increases the difficulty of forming an accurate image because of the increased multiple scattering. To model such strong three-dimensional (3-D) multiple scattering effects in biomedical imaging ...

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46
Detection geometry and reconstruction error in magnetic source imaging
1993-11-01

A recently developed reconstruction algorithm for magnetic source imaging exploits prior knowledge about source location, source power density, detector geometry, and detector noise power to obtain an explicit estimate of the reconstruction error. This paper demonstrates the application of the new algorithm to the ...

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47
A wavelet based method for SPECT reconstruction with non-uniform attenuation
2007-03-01

SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) is a tomography technique that can greatly show information about the metabolic activity in body and improve clinical diagnosis. In SPECT, because of photoelectric absorption and Compton scattering, the emitted gamma photons are attenuated inside the body before arriving at the detector. The goal of quantitative SPECT ...

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48
A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the universe by optimal mass transportation.
2002-05-16

Reconstructing the density fluctuations in the early Universe that evolved into the distribution of galaxies we see today is a challenge to modern cosmology. An accurate reconstruction would allow us to test cosmological models by simulating the evolution starting from the reconstructed primordial state and ...

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49
Second-Order accurate volume-of-fluid algorithms for TrackingMaterial Interfaces
1997-08-26

We introduce two new volume-of-fluid interface reconstruction algorithms and compare the accuracy of these algorithms to four other widely used volume-of-fluid interface reconstruction algorithms. We find that when the interface is smooth (e.g., continuous with two continuous derivatives) the ...

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50
Image reconstruction for PET/CT scanners: past achievements and future challenges
2010-10-01

PET is a medical imaging modality with proven clinical value for disease diagnosis and treatment monitoring. The integration of PET and CT on modern scanners provides a synergy of the two imaging modalities. Through different mathematical algorithms, PET data can be reconstructed into the spatial distribution of the injected radiotracer. With dynamic ...

PubMed Central

51
Attractor reconstruction for non-linear systems: a methodological note.
2001-05-01

Attractor reconstruction is an important step in the process of making predictions for non-linear time-series and in the computation of certain invariant quantities used to characterize the dynamics of such series. The utility of computed predictions and invariant quantities is dependent on the accuracy of attractor reconstruction, which in turn is ...

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52
Attractor reconstruction for non-linear systems: a methodological note
2001-01-01

Attractor reconstruction is an important step in the process of making predictions for non-linear time-series and in the computation of certain invariant quantities used to characterize the dynamics of such series. The utility of computed predictions and invariant quantities is dependent on the accuracy of attractor reconstruction, which in turn is ...

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53
Message-passing algorithms for compressed sensing
2009-11-10

Compressed sensing aims to undersample certain high-dimensional signals yet accurately reconstruct them by exploiting signal characteristics. Accurate reconstruction is possible when the object to be recovered is sufficiently sparse in a known basis. Currently, the best known sparsity�undersampling tradeoff is ...

PubMed Central

54
A reconstruction algorithms for helical cone-beam SPECT
1993-08-01

Cone-beam SPECT provides improved sensitivity for imaging small organs like the brain and heart. However, current cone-beam tomography with the focal point traversing a planar orbit does not acquire sufficient data to give an accurate reconstruction. In this paper, the authors employ a data-acquisition method which obtains complete data for cone-beam SPECT ...

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55
Fast And Accurate Three-Dimensional Reconstruction From Cone-Beam Projection Data Using Algebraic Methods
1998-01-01

Cone-beam computed tomography (CT) is an emerging imaging technology, as it provides all projections needed for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction in a single spin of the Xray source-detector pair. This facilitates fast, low-dose data acquisition as required for imaging fast moving objects, such as the heart, and intra-operative CT applications. Current cone-beam ...

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56
Globally Convergent Inverse Reconstruction Algorithm for ...
2010-04-27

... Convergent Inverse Reconstruction Algorithm for Detection of IEDs via Imaging of Spatially Distributed Dielectric Constants using Microwave. ...

DTIC Science & Technology

57
Dynamic Imaging and Fast Reconstruction Algorithms in ...
1999-09-01

... and stable reconstruction in the presence of rigid body motion. ... He has developed new advanced algorithms that permit tomographic imaging to be ...

DTIC Science & Technology

58
Segmentation of tooth in CT images for the 3D reconstruction of teeth
2004-05-01

In the dental field, the 3D tooth model in which each tooth can be manipulated individually is an essential component for the simulation of orthodontic surgery and treatment. To reconstruct such a tooth model from CT slices, we need to define the accurate boundary of each tooth from CT slices. However, the global threshold method, which is commonly used in ...

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59
Full-aperture wavefront reconstruction from annular subaperture interferometric data by use of Zernike annular polynomials and a matrix method for testing large aspheric surfaces
2006-05-20

We propose a more accurate and efficient reconstruction method used in testing large aspheric surfaces with annular subaperture interferometry. By the introduction of the Zernike annular polynomials that are orthogonal over the annular region, the method proposed here eliminates the coupling problem in the earlier reconstruction ...

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60
Feature reconstruction in inverse problems
2011-06-01

A strategy for the derivation of fast, accurate and stable algorithms for combining the reconstruction and the feature extraction step for solving linear ill-posed problems in just one method is presented. The precomputation of special reconstruction kernels with optimized parameters for the combination of the two ...

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Advanced MRI reconstruction toolbox with accelerating on GPU
2011-01-01

In this paper, we present a fast iterative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction algorithm taking advantage of the prevailing GPGPU programming paradigm. In clinical environment, MRI reconstruction is usually performed via fast Fourier transform (FFT). However, imaging artifacts (i.e. signal loss) resulting from ...

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62
EdgeCS: edge guided compressive sensing reconstruction
2010-07-01

Compressive sensing (CS) reconstructs images from a small number of projections. We propose EdgeCS - edge guided CS reconstruction - to recover images of higher qualities from fewer measurements than the current state-of-the-art methods. Accurate edge information can significantly improve image recovery quality and speed, but such ...

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63
An Information Theoretic Evaluation Criterion for 3D ...
2004-09-01

... the projections of the reconstructions and the ... and deciding that the reconstruction is of ... Linear differential algorithm for motion recovery: A geometric ...

DTIC Science & Technology

64
A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF RECONSTRUCTION ...
1987-06-01

... RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY: INTERPOLATION VERSUS INTERPOLATION ...

DTIC Science & Technology

65
Nonstationary time-series analysis: accurate reconstruction of driving forces.
2001-09-04

We propose a simple method for the accurate reconstruction of slowly changing external forces acting on nonlinear dynamical systems. The method traces the evolution of the external force by locally linearizing the map dependency with the shifting parameter. Application of our algorithm to synthetic data corresponding to discrete models ...

PubMed

66
Tomography for properties of materials that bend rays: a tutorial
1985-12-01

When tomography is performed with electromagnetic or acoustical radiation, refraction may cause sufficient bending of the probing rays that ordinary reconstruction algorithms, which are based on the assumption of straight rays, do not yield accurate results. The resulting problem of reconstructing the ...

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67
Blind self-calibrating algorithm for phase-shifting interferometry by use of cross-bispectrum.
2011-04-11

A blind self-calibrating algorithm for phase-shifting interferometry is presented, with which the nonlinear interaction introduced by phase shift errors, between the reconstructed phases and the reconstructed amplitudes of the reference wave, is measured with cross-bispectrum. Minimizing an objective function based on this ...

PubMed

68
Robust 3D Reconstruction and Identification of Dendritic Spines from Optical Microscopy Imaging
2008-07-24

In neuro-biology, the 3D reconstruction of neurons followed by the identification of dendritic spines is essential for studying neuronal morphology, function and biophysical properties. Most existing methods suffer from problems of low reliability, poor accuracy and require much user interaction. In this paper, we present a method to reconstruct dendrites ...

PubMed Central

69
Polychromatic cone-beam phase-contrast tomography
2007-10-15

A method is presented for quantitative phase-contrast tomography using unfiltered radiation from a small polychromatic source. The three-dimensional distribution of complex refractive index in a monomorphous object is reconstructed given a single projection image per view angle. The reconstruction algorithm is achromatic and stable ...

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70
Industrial applications of computed tomography at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
1980-06-01

A research and development program was begun two years ago at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) to study nonmedical applications of computed tomography. This program had several goals. The first goal was to develop the necessary reconstruction algorithms to accurately reconstruct cross sections of ...

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71
Applications of industrial computed tomography at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
1980-01-01

A research and development program was begun three years ago at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) to study nonmedical applications of computed tomography. This program had several goals. The first goal was to develop the necessary reconstruction algorithms to accurately reconstruct cross sections of ...

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72
Covariance approximation for fast and accurate computation of channelized Hotelling observer statistics
1999-10-01

We describe a method for computing linear observer statistics for maximum a posteriori (MAP) reconstructions of PET images. The method is based on a theoretical approximation for the mean and covariance of MAP reconstructions. In particular, we derive here a closed form for the channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) statistic applied to 2D MAP images. We ...

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73
A residual correction method for high-resolution PET reconstruction with application to on-the-fly Monte Carlo based model of positron range
2010-02-21

Purpose: The quality of tomographic images is directly affected by the system model being used in image reconstruction. An accurate system matrix is desirable for high-resolution image reconstruction, but it often leads to high computation cost. In this work the authors present a maximum a posteriori reconstruction ...

PubMed Central

74
Targeted-ROI imaging in electron paramagnetic resonance imaging
2007-07-01

Electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI) is a technique that has been used for in vivo oxygen imaging of small animals. In continuous wave (CW) EPRI, the measurement can be interpreted as a sampled 4D Radon transform of the image function. The conventional filtered-backprojection (FBP) algorithm has been used widely for reconstructing images from ...

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75
Accurate helical cone-beam CT reconstruction with redundant data
2009-07-10

We present a new image reconstruction algorithm for helical cone-beam computed tomography (CT). This algorithm is designed for data collected at or near maximum pitch, and provides a theoretically exact and stable reconstruction while beneficially using all measured data. The main operations involved are a ...

PubMed Central

76
Electronic noise modeling in statistical iterative reconstruction.
2009-04-24

We consider electronic noise modeling in tomographic image reconstruction when the measured signal is the sum of a Gaussian distributed electronic noise component and another random variable whose log-likelihood function satisfies a certain linearity condition. Examples of such likelihood functions include the Poisson distribution and an exponential dispersion (ED) model that ...

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77
Electronic Noise Modeling in Statistical Iterative Reconstruction
2009-04-24

We consider electronic noise modeling in tomographic image reconstruction when the measured signal is the sum of a Gaussian distributed electronic noise component and another random variable whose log-likelihood function satisfies a certain linearity condition. Examples of such likelihood functions include the Poisson distribution and an exponential dispersion (ED) model that ...

PubMed Central

78
Optical tomographic brain imaging with diffusion and transport-theory-based algorithms
2003-07-01

There has been considerable discussion concerning the effects of the cerebrospinal fluid on measurements of blood-related parameters in the human brain, and if diffusion-theory-based image reconstruction algorithms can accurately account for the light propagation in the head. All of these studies have been performed either with ...

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79
Auto-Calibrated Parallel Imaging Reconstruction for Arbitrary Trajectories Using k-Space Sparse Matrices (kSPA)
2010-03-01

Image acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be accelerated by using multiple receiving coils simultaneously. The problem of reconstructing an unaliased image from partially sampled k-space data can be formulated as a large system of sparse linear equations. The k-space sparse matrix (kSPA) algorithm proposes to solve the system of equations ...

PubMed Central

80
MHD Equilibrium Reconstruction in the DIII-D Tokamak
2005-10-15

Physics elements and advances crucial for the development of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium reconstruction to support plasma operation and data analysis in the DIII-D tokamak are reviewed. A response function formalism and a Picard linearization scheme are used to efficiently combine the equilibrium and the fitting iterations and search for the optimum solution ...

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A New Wave-Front Reconstruction Method for Adaptive Optics Systems Using Wavelets
2008-11-01

A new technique for wave-front reconstruction from gradient measurements on a square data set is presented. This technique is based on obtaining the Haar wavelet image decomposition of the original wave-front by appropriate filtering and down-sampling of the gradient measurement data. The use of the wavelet decomposition leads to an algorithm with ...

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82
Fast semi-analytical acoustic inversion for quantitative optoacoustic tomography
2011-02-01

We present a fast inversion algorithm for quantitative two- and three-dimensional optoacoustic tomography. The algorithm is based on an accurate and efficient forward model, which eliminates the need for regularization in the inversion and can achieve real-time performance. The reconstruction speed and other ...

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83
Application of a New Grain-Based Reconstruction Algorithm to ...
2005-10-01

... error (%) in the computed pore locations ct# P, Number ... Two different network reconstructions have been performed ... grain-reconstruction algorithm. ...

DTIC Science & Technology

84
Sliding slice: A novel approach for high accuracy and automatic 3D localization of seeds from CT scans
2005-01-01

We present a conceptually novel principle for 3D reconstruction of prostate seed implants. Unlike existing methods for implant reconstruction, the proposed algorithm uses raw CT data (sinograms) instead of reconstructed CT slices. Using raw CT data solves several inevitable problems related to the ...

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85
Algorithm For Enlargement Of Digitized Images
1993-01-01

Digital Image Enlarging Balanced Reconstruction Algorithm (DIEBRA) enlarges digitized image composed

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86
World Wide Web interface for advanced SPECT reconstruction algorithms implemented on a remote massively parallel computer.
1997-11-01

Data from Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) studies are blurred by inevitable physical phenomena occurring during data acquisition. These errors may be compensated by means of reconstruction algorithms which take into account accurate physical models of the data acquisition procedure. Unfortunately, this approach ...

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87
A more accurate reconstruction system matrix for quantitative proton computed tomography.
2009-10-01

An accurate system matrix is required for quantitative proton CT (pCT) image reconstruction with iterative projection algorithms. The system matrix is composed of chord lengths of individual proton path intersections with reconstruction pixels. In previous work, reconstructions were performed ...

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88
Comparison of brain-computer interface decoding algorithms in open-loop and closed-loop control.
2009-11-11

Neuroprosthetic devices such as a computer cursor can be controlled by the activity of cortical neurons when an appropriate algorithm is used to decode motor intention. Algorithms which have been proposed for this purpose range from the simple population vector algorithm (PVA) and optimal linear estimator (OLE) to various versions of ...

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89
Optimization of CT image reconstruction algorithms for the lung tissue research consortium (LTRC)
2006-03-01

To create a repository of clinical data, CT images and tissue samples and to more clearly understand the pathogenetic features of pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) launched a cooperative effort known as the Lung Tissue Resource Consortium (LTRC). The CT images for the LTRC effort must contain accurate CT numbers in order to ...

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90
A Segmentation Algorithm for X-ray 3D Angiography and Vessel Catheterization
2008-11-06

Vessel Catheterization is a clinical procedure usually performed by a specialist by means of X-ray fluoroscopic guide with contrast-media. In the present paper, we present a simple and efficient algorithm for vessel segmentation which allows vessel separation and extraction from the background (noise and signal coming from other organs). This would reduce the number of ...

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91
Toward Accurate On-Ground Attitude Determination for the Gaia Spacecraft
2010-03-01

The work presented in this paper concerns the accurate On-Ground Attitude (OGA) reconstruction for the astrometry spacecraft Gaia in the presence of disturbance and of control torques acting on the spacecraft. The reconstruction of the expected environmental torques which influence the spacecraft dynamics will be also investigated. The ...

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92
Fast Implementations of Algebraic Methods for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction from Cone-Beam Data
1999-01-01

The prime motivation of this work is to devise techniques that make the algebraic reconstruction technique (ART) and related methods more efficient for routine clinical use, while not compromising their accuracy. Since most of the computational effort of ART is spent for projection/backprojection operations, we first seek to optimize the projection ...

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93
Parametric boundary reconstruction algorithm for industrial CT metrology application.
2009-01-01

High-energy X-ray computed tomography (CT) systems have been recently used to produce high-resolution images in various nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT/NDE) applications. The accuracy of the dimensional information extracted from CT images is rapidly approaching the accuracy achieved with a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), the conventional approach to acquire the metrology ...

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94
Non-Iterative Regularized reconstruction Algorithm for Non-CartesiAn MRI: NIRVANA.
2010-12-08

We introduce a novel noniterative algorithm for the fast and accurate reconstruction of nonuniformly sampled MRI data. The proposed scheme derives the reconstructed image as the nonuniform inverse Fourier transform of a compensated dataset. We derive each sample in the compensated dataset as a weighted linear ...

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95
Image reconstruction exploiting object sparsity in boundary-enhanced X-ray phase-contrast tomography
2010-05-10

Propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PCT) seeks to reconstruct information regarding the complex-valued refractive index distribution of an object. In many applications, a boundary-enhanced image is sought that reveals the locations of discontinuities in the real-valued component of the refractive index distribution. We investigate two iterative ...

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96
Image reconstruction exploiting object sparsity in boundary-enhanced X-ray phase-contrast tomography
2010-07-23

Propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PCT) seeks to reconstruct information regarding the complex-valued refractive index distribution of an object. In many applications, a boundary-enhanced image is sought that reveals the locations of discontinuities in the real-valued component of the refractive index distribution. We investigate two iterative ...

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97
Deconvolution-interpolation gridding (DING): accurate reconstruction for arbitrary k-space trajectories.
2006-12-01

A simple iterative algorithm, termed deconvolution-interpolation gridding (DING), is presented to address the problem of reconstructing images from arbitrarily-sampled k-space. The new algorithm solves a sparse system of linear equations that is equivalent to a deconvolution of the k-space with a small window. The deconvolution ...

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98
Image reconstruction exploiting object sparsity in boundary-enhanced X-ray phase-contrast tomography.
2010-05-10

Propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PCT) seeks to reconstruct information regarding the complex-valued refractive index distribution of an object. In many applications, a boundary-enhanced image is sought that reveals the locations of discontinuities in the real-valued component of the refractive index distribution. We investigate two iterative ...

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99
Deconvolution-Interpolation Gridding (DING): Accurate Reconstruction for Arbitrary k-Space Trajectories
2006-12-01

A simple iterative algorithm, termed deconvolution-interpolation gridding (DING), is presented to address the problem of reconstructing images from arbitrarily-sampled k-space. The new algorithm solves a sparse system of linear equations that is equivalent to a deconvolution of the k-space with a small window. The deconvolution ...

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100
A local and iterative neural reconstruction algorithm for cone-beam data
2010-03-01

This work presents a new neural algorithm designed for the reconstruction of tomographic images from Cone Beam data. The main objective of this work is the search of a new reconstruction method, able to work locally, more robust in presence of noisy data and in situations with a small number of projections. This study should be ...

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SPIRiT: Iterative self-consistent parallel imaging reconstruction from arbitrary k-space.
2010-08-01

A new approach to autocalibrating, coil-by-coil parallel imaging reconstruction, is presented. It is a generalized reconstruction framework based on self-consistency. The reconstruction problem is formulated as an optimization that yields the most consistent solution with the calibration and acquisition data. The approach is general ...

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102
SPIRiT: Iterative Self-consistent Parallel Imaging Reconstruction from Arbitrary k-Space
2010-08-01

A new approach to autocalibrating, coil-by-coil parallel imaging reconstruction is presented. It is a generalized reconstruction framework based on self consistency. The reconstruction problem is formulated as an optimization that yields the most consistent solution with the calibration and acquisition data. The approach is general and ...

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103
Shape reconstruction of subcellular structures from live cell fluorescence microscopy images.
2009-04-07

Live imaging of subcellular structures is indispensible to advance our understanding of cellular processes. The blurred digital images acquired in light microscopy are, however, complex to analyze, and identification and reconstruction of subcellular structures from such images remains a major challenge. We present a novel, model-based image analysis ...

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104
Modeling heterogeneous materials via two-point correlation functions. II. Algorithmic details and applications.
2008-03-27

In the first part of this series of two papers, we proposed a theoretical formalism that enables one to model and categorize heterogeneous materials (media) via two-point correlation functions S(2) and introduced an efficient heterogeneous-medium (re)construction algorithm called the "lattice-point" algorithm. Here we discuss the ...

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105
ECT image reconstruction based on the generalized vector sampled pattern matching method
2010-08-01

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a new technology for testing parameters of solid-air two-phase flow during the past decades. The key technique of ECT is the fast and accurate image reconstruction. In this paper, the principle and measuring process of ECT were elaborated, the reconstruction algorithm ...

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106
Iterative projection reconstruction of time-resolved images using highly-constrained back-projection (HYPR).
2008-01-01

Highly-constrained back-projection (HYPR) is a technique for the reconstruction of sparse, highly-undersampled time-resolved image data. A novel iterative HYPR (I-HYPR) algorithm is presented and validated in computer simulations. The reconstruction method is then applied to cerebral perfusion MRI simulated as a radial acquisition and ...

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107
Bioluminescence tomography based on Bayesian approach
2009-02-01

As a new mode of molecular imaging, bioluminescence tomography (BLT) will have significant effect on revealing the molecular and cellular information in vivo at the whole-body small animal level because of its high sensitive detection and facile operation. However, BLT is an ill-posed problem, it is necessary to incorporate a priori knowledge into the tomographic algorithm. In ...

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108
Fourier rebinning algorithm for inverse geometry CT.
2008-11-01

Inverse geometry computed tomography (IGCT) is a new type of volumetric CT geometry that employs a large array of x-ray sources opposite a smaller detector array. Volumetric coverage and high isotropic resolution produce very large data sets and therefore require a computationally efficient three-dimensional reconstruction algorithm. The purpose of this ...

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109
Fourier rebinning algorithm for inverse geometry CT
2008-11-13

Inverse geometry computed tomography (IGCT) is a new type of volumetric CT geometry that employs a large array of x-ray sources opposite a smaller detector array. Volumetric coverage and high isotropic resolution produce very large data sets and therefore require a computationally efficient three-dimensional reconstruction algorithm. The purpose of this ...

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110
Tau Reconstruction and Identification at the Compact Muon Solenoid
2011-09-01

New Physics beyond the Standard Model could appear at the LHC in final states with tau leptons. The development of efficient and accurate reconstruction and identification algorithms for taus decaying to hadrons is therefore an important item in the physics program of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. New identification ...

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111
A point-cloud-based multiview stereo algorithm for free-viewpoint video.

This paper presents a robust multiview stereo (MVS) algorithm for free-viewpoint video. Our MVS scheme is totally point-cloud-based and consists of three stages: point cloud extraction, merging, and meshing. To guarantee reconstruction accuracy, point clouds are first extracted according to a stereo matching metric which is robust to noise, occlusion, and ...

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112
Transform domain adaptive compressive sensing of specific objects
2011-05-01

We have previously shown in reference [3] that images of particular objects of interest can be recovered from compressive measurements by minimizing a L2-norm criterion that incorporates prior knowledge of the signal such as its expected spectra. The basis in which the signal is reconstructed was also noted to be an important consideration in the formulation of the solution. ...

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113
Reconstructing random media
1998-01-01

We formulate a procedure to reconstruct the structure of general random heterogeneous media from limited morphological information by extending the methodology of Rintoul and Torquato [J. Colloid Interface Sci. {bold 186}, 467 (1997)] developed for dispersions. The procedure has the advantages that it is simple to implement and generally applicable to multidimensional, ...

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114
Evolutionary determination of experimental parameters for ptychographical imaging
2011-06-01

The Ptychographical Iterative Engine (PIE) algorithm is a recently developed novel method of Coherent Diffractive Imaging (CDI) that uses multiple overlapping diffraction patterns to reconstruct an image. This method has successfully produced high quality reconstructions at both optical and X-ray wavelengths but the need for ...

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115
Evolutionary History Reconstruction for Mammalian Complex Gene Clusters
2009-08-01

Clusters of genes that evolved from single progenitors via repeated segmental duplications present significant challenges to the generation of a truly complete human genome sequence. Such clusters can confound both accurate sequence assembly and downstream computational analysis, yet they represent a hotbed of functional innovation, making them of extreme interest. We have ...

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116
Influence of reconstruction settings on the performance of adaptive thresholding algorithms for FDG-PET image segmentation in radiotherapy planning.
2011-01-30

The purpose of this study was to analyze the behavior of a contouring algorithm for PET images based on adaptive thresholding depending on lesions size and target-to-background (TB) ratio under different conditions of image reconstruction parameters. Based on this analysis, the image reconstruction scheme able to maximize the goodness ...

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117
Combination of a GMR sensor and reconstruction algorithm: a novel magnetic sensing system
2011-03-01

Over the past few years, the authors have developed a reconstruction algorithm that can accurately reconstruct images of flaws from data obtained using conventional ECT sensors. The algorithm is simple and fast and involves few steps, thus making it suitable for implementation on a PC. The ...

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118
Novel Fast and Accurate Correlation-Tracking Algorithm,
1996-10-08

... NOVEL FAST AND ACCURATE CORRELATION-TRACKING ALGORITHM by ... Abstract: This paper presents a novel correlation- ...

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119
Image reconstruction in cardiac interventions using a small flat-panel detector
2010-03-01

C-arm CT is used in neurovascular interventions where a large flat panel detector is used to acquire cone-beam projection data. In this case, data truncation problems due to the limited detector size are mild. When the cone beam CT method is applied to cardiac interventions severe data truncation artifacts reduce the clinical utility of the reconstructions. However, ...

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120
Stable reconstruction of piecewise continuous plane stratified biological tissues via electrical impedance tomography.
2010-02-05

Image reconstruction in electrical impedance tomography is, generally, an ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem. Regularization methods are widely used to ensure a stable solution. Herein, we present a case study, which uses a novel electrical impedance tomography method for reconstruction of layered biological tissues with piecewise continuous ...

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Real time equilibrium reconstruction for control of the discharge in the DIII-D tokamak
1997-07-01

Optimum performance of a tokamak discharge requires accurate feedback control of many of the discharge parameters. For this to be possible, the values of these parameters must be accurately measured. The values of many discharge parameters, such as shape and safety factor profile, are not directly measured but can be evaluated from the available diagnostic ...

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122
Systematic diffuse optical image errors resulting from uncertainty in the background optical properties
1999-04-01

We investigated the diffuse optical image errors resulting from systematic errors in the background scattering and absorption coefficients, Gaussian noise in the measurements, and the depth at which the image is reconstructed when using a 2D linear reconstruction algorithm for a 3D object. The fourth Born perturbation approach was used ...

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123
Digital holography of particle fields: reconstruction by use of complex amplitude.
2003-02-10

Digital holography appears to be a strong contender as the next-generation technology for holographic diagnostics of particle fields and holographic particle image velocimetry for flow field measurement. With the digital holographic approach, holograms are directly recorded by a digital camera and reconstructed numerically. This not only eliminates wet chemical processing and ...

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124
Two-dimensional signal reconstruction: The correlation sampling method
2007-12-15

An accurate approach for reconstructing a time-dependent two-dimensional signal from non-synchronized time series recorded at points located on a grid is discussed. The method, denoted as correlation sampling, improves the standard conditional sampling approach commonly employed in the study of turbulence in magnetoplasma devices. Its implementation is ...

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125
Spot distribution measurement using a scanning nanoslit.
2011-08-20

A scanning and rotating nanoslit is used to measure submicrometer features in focused spot distributions. Using a filtered backprojection technique, a highly accurate reconstruction is demonstrated. Experimental results are confirmed by simulating the scanning slit technique using a physical optics simulation program. Analysis of various error mechanisms ...

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126
Sagittal profile of the femoral condyles and its application to femorotibial contact analysis.
2001-02-01

Measurements of the sagittal profiles of the articular surfaces of 24 femoral condyles were performed using a laser range finder. An algebraic algorithm was developed to reconstruct the measured sagittal profiles with simple geometry. In particular, it has been shown that a two-circular-arc model provides a very accurate ...

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127
Industrial applications of computed tomography at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
1980-05-01

A research and development program was begun two years ago at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) to study nonmedical applications of computed tomography. This program has several goals. The first goal was to develop the necessary reconstruction algorithms to accurately reconstruct cross sections of ...

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128
Differential Evolution Approach for Regularized Bioluminescence Tomography
2010-02-17

Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) is an inverse source problem that localizes and quantifies bioluminescent probe distribution in 3D. The generic BLT model is ill-posed, leading to non-unique solutions and aberrant reconstruction in the presence of measurement noise and optical parameter mismatches. In this paper, we introduce the knowledge of the number of bioluminescence ...

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129
Determination of N(h) profile of the ionosphere using compression and decompression of linearly frequency-modulated signals
1986-01-01

The authors propose an algorithm of reconstructing electron density height profiles from differential ionograms. The degree of compression (expansion) of reflected signals with linear frequency modulation is taken as the parameter containing information on the physical characteristics of the ionospheric plasma being sounded. It is shown that the method of ...

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130
Comparison of interpolation methods for ISAR imaging
1997-09-01

The purpose of this article is to describe and compare different numerical methods to reconstruct focused ISAR imagery via interpolation in either range-Doppler or frequency domains. Parameters such as amplitude deviation, image entropy, as well as computational efficiency are used to contrast the different approaches presented. It is shown that conventional linear and cubic ...

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131
Beam Emittance Measurement with Laser Wire Scanners in the ILC Beam Delivery System
2008-02-01

Accurate measurement of the beam phase-space is essential for the next generation of electron accelerators. A scheme for beam optics optimization and beam matrix reconstruction algorithms for the diagnostics section of the beam delivery system of the International Linear Collider based on laser-wire beam profile monitors are discussed. ...

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132
Fast and accurate algorithm for the computation of complex linear canonical transforms.
2010-09-01

A fast and accurate algorithm is developed for the numerical computation of the family of complex linear canonical transforms (CLCTs), which represent the input-output relationship of complex quadratic-phase systems. Allowing the linear canonical transform parameters to be complex numbers makes it possible to represent paraxial optical systems that involve ...

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133
A multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for synthesis imaging in radio interferometry
2011-08-01

Aims: We describe MS-MFS, a multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for wide-band synthesis-imaging, and present imaging results that illustrate the capabilities of the algorithm and the conditions under which it is feasible and gives accurate results. Methods: The MS-MFS algorithm models the wide-band ...

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134
Three dimension double inversion recovery gray matter imaging using compressed sensing.
2010-09-24

The double inversion recovery (DIR) imaging technique has various applications such as black blood magnetic resonance imaging and gray/white matter imaging. Recent clinical studies show the promise of DIR for high resolution three dimensional (3D) gray matter imaging. One drawback in this case however is the long data acquisition time needed to obtain the fully sampled 3D spatial frequency domain ...

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135
Mutual information algorithms
2010-11-01

Three new mutual information algorithms are raised for time delay in the phase space reconstruction process. Firstly, Cellucci�s mutual information algorithm is analyzed based on partitioning plane, which is constructed by a pair of Lorenz series with the same size, into four and sixteen grids with equal distribution probability in ...

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136
Reconstruction from Uniformly Attenuated SPECT Projection Data Using the DBH Method
2009-01-01

An algorithm was developed for the two-dimensional (2D) reconstruction of truncated and non-truncated uniformly attenuated data acquired from single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). The algorithm is able to reconstruct data from half-scan (180�) and short-scan (180�+fan angle) acquisitions for ...

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137
Feasibility study of low-dose intra-operative cone-beam CT for image-guided surgery
2011-03-01

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been increasingly used during surgical procedures for providing accurate three-dimensional anatomical information for intra-operative navigation and verification. High-quality CBCT images are in general obtained through reconstruction from projection data acquired at hundreds of view angles, which is associated with ...

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138
Reconstruction from Uniformly Attenuated SPECT Projection Data Using the DBH Method
2008-03-20

An algorithm was developed for the two-dimensional (2D) reconstruction of truncated and non-truncated uniformly attenuated data acquired from single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). The algorithm is able to reconstruct data from half-scan (180o) and short-scan (180?+fan angle) acquisitions for parallel- ...

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139
Improved quantitation for PET/CT image reconstruction with system modeling and anatomical priors.
2006-11-01

Accurate quantitation of positron emission tomography (PET) tracer uptake levels in tumors is important for staging and monitoring response to treatment. Quantitative accuracy in PET is particularly poor for small tumors because of system partial volume errors and smoothing operations. This work proposes a reconstruction algorithm to ...

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140
Improved quantitation for PET/CT image reconstruction with system modeling and anatomical priors
2006-11-15

Accurate quantitation of positron emission tomography (PET) tracer uptake levels in tumors is important for staging and monitoring response to treatment. Quantitative accuracy in PET is particularly poor for small tumors because of system partial volume errors and smoothing operations. This work proposes a reconstruction algorithm to ...

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Non-circular scans and image reconstruction for breast CT
2008-04-01

Current dedicated, cone-beam breast CT scanners generally use a circular scanning configuration largely because it is relatively easy to implement mechanically. It is also well-known, however, that a circular scanning configuration produces insufficient cone-beam data for reconstrucing accurate 3D breast images. Approximate algorithms, such as FDK has been ...

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142
Semiautomatic Three-dimensional Reconstruction and Quantitative Analysis of Pulmonary CT Scans: Current Methodology at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research.
2002-01-01

Assessment of density patterns is critical for quantification of the morphology in healthy and diseased lungs. We propose a fast and accurate method for semiautomatic lung density distribution assessment. The algorithm is based on a customized, commercial...

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143
On the Convergence of Finite Element Scattering Simulations
2010-02-01

The ability to produce accurate scattering data for imaging is important in the field of NDT for both the development of new algorithms and iterative methods which improve the scatterer reconstruction by trial and error. Error analysis for FE simulations is typically performed for plane wave propagation in a homogeneous space. In this ...

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144
Dynamic 3-D shape measurement method based on quadrature transform.
2010-02-01

In this work, it is presented a combination of temporal phase unwrapping technique and Fourier-based quadrature transform to obtain the dynamic phase map from a vibrating object. The proposed combination results on a very simple algorithm which allows an accurate and versatile 3D reconstruction of the object under analysis. ...

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145
A fast 3D reconstruction algorithm for inverse-geometry CT based on an exact PET rebinning algorithm
2007-03-01

Inverse-geometry CT (IGCT) employs a large area x-ray source array opposite a small area detector array. The system is expected to provide sub-second volumetric imaging with isotropic resolution and no cone-beam effects. Due to the large amount of data, it is desirable to have an exact 3D reconstruction algorithm that is fast. Currently known IGCT ...

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146
Quantitative cardiac SPECT reconstruction with reduced image degradation due to patient anatomy
1994-12-01

Patient anatomy has complicated effects on cardiac SPECT images. The authors investigated reconstruction methods which substantially reduced these effects for improved image quality. A 3D mathematical cardiac-torso (MCAT) phantom which models the anatomical structures in the thorax region were used in the study. The phantom was modified to simulate variations in patient ...

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147
Volume-of-fluid algorithm with different modified dynamic material ordering methods and their comparisons
2010-05-01

Volume-of-fluid (VOF) interface reconstruction methods are used to define material interfaces to separate different materials in a mixed cell. These material interfaces are then used to evaluate transport flux at each cell edges in multi-material hydrodynamic calculations. Most of the VOF interface reconstruction methods and volume transport schemes rely ...

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148
Near infrared optical tomography using NIRFAST: Algorithm for numerical model and image reconstruction
2008-08-15

SUMMARYDiffuse optical tomography, also known as near infrared tomography, has been under investigation, for non-invasive functional imaging of tissue, specifically for the detection and characterization of breast cancer or other soft tissue lesions. Much work has been carried out for accurate modeling and image reconstruction from clinical data. NIRFAST, ...

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149
Averaging Tens to Hundreds of Icosahedral Particle Images to Resolve Protein Secondary Structure Elements using a Multi-Path Simulated Annealing Optimization Algorithm
2007-07-06

Accurately determining a cryoEM particle�s alignment parameters is crucial to high resolution single particle 3-D reconstruction. We developed Multi-Path Simulated Annealing, a Monte Carlo type of optimization algorithm, for globally aligning the center and orientation of a particle simultaneously. A consistency criterion was ...

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150
Fourier rebinning of time-of-flight PET data.
2005-05-25

This paper explores fast reconstruction strategies for 3D time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET), based on 2D data rebinning. Starting from pre-corrected 3D TOF data, a rebinning algorithm estimates for each transaxial slice the 2D TOF sinogram that would have been acquired by a single-ring scanner. The rebinned sinograms can then be ...

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151
Fourier rebinning of time-of-flight PET data
2005-06-01

This paper explores fast reconstruction strategies for 3D time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET), based on 2D data rebinning. Starting from pre-corrected 3D TOF data, a rebinning algorithm estimates for each transaxial slice the 2D TOF sinogram that would have been acquired by a single-ring scanner. The rebinned sinograms can then be ...

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152
Tomographic Image Reconstruction Techniques for ...
1988-07-11

... Abstract : Computerized tomography (CT) offers one method for accurately reconstructing the spatial features of a spectroscopic source having ...

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153
Using GPU for face detection
2009-06-01

Many modern image analysis systems such as digital face image based authentication, 3D reconstruction, entertainment systems and many others, require fast and accurate face detection system. More advanced techniques, achieving better results, usually require high amount of computations and therefore use to much of the system resources. Using parallel GPU ...

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154
Layer by Layer Reconstruction Methods for the Earth ...
1985-05-01

... CAMBRIDGE LAB FOR INFORMATION AND DECISION ... efficient signal processing algorithms such ... to previous reconstruction techniques of Pekeris ...

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155
Fast Surface Reconstruction and Segmentation with ...
2009-05-18

... A number of surface reconstruction algorithms triangulate unstructured point clouds ... the final surface of the object, and fast marching cube methods ...

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156
Fast and accurate algorithms for quadratic phase integrals in optics and signal processing
2011-05-01

The class of two-dimensional non-separable linear canonical transforms is the most general family of linear canonical transforms, which are important in both signal/image processing and optics. Application areas include noise filtering, image encryption, design and analysis of ABCD systems, etc. To facilitate these applications, one need to obtain a digital computation method and a fast ...

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157
Accurate, fast, and robust vessel contour segmentation of CTA using an adaptive self-learning edge model
2009-02-01

We present an efficient algorithm for the robust segmentation of vessel contours in Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) images. The algorithm performs its task within several steps based on a 3D Active Contour Model (ACM) with refinements on Multi-Planar Reconstructions (MPRs) using 2D ACMs. To be able to distinguish true vessel ...

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158
A new volume of fluid advection algorithm: the defined donating region scheme
2001-01-01

This paper presents a new volume of fluid (VOF) advection algorithm, termed the defined donating region (DDR) scheme. The algorithm uses a linear piecewise method of free surface reconstruction, coupled to a fully multi-dimensional method of cell boundary flux integration. The performance of the new scheme has been compared with the ...

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159
A high-order finite-volume algorithm for Fokker Planck collisions in magnetized plasmas
2008-07-01

A high-order finite-volume algorithm is developed for the Fokker Planck Operator (FPO) describing Coulomb collisions in strongly magnetized plasmas. The algorithm uses a generic fourth-order reconstruction scheme on an unstructured grid in the velocity space spanned by parallel velocity and magnetic moment. By analytically mapping ...

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160
A four-dimensional registration algorithm with application to joint correction of motion and slice timing in FMRI.
2011-03-22

Existing groupwise image registration algorithms for longitudinal data generally ignore continuous movements and signal changes that occur throughout image acquisition. We emphasize the case of functional magnetic resonance images, which present spatio-temporal distortion due to the combination of head motion during scanning and staggered slice acquisition. While there exist ...

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A High-Order Finite-Volume Algorithm for Fokker-Planck Collisions in Magnetized Plasmas
2007-04-18

A high-order finite volume algorithm is developed for the Fokker-Planck Operator (FPO) describing Coulomb collisions in strongly magnetized plasmas. The algorithm is based on a general fourth-order reconstruction scheme for an unstructured grid in the velocity space spanned by parallel velocity and magnetic moment. The method provides ...

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162
Lung tumor tracking, trajectory reconstruction, and motion artifact removal using rotational cone-beam projections
2010-01-01

Management of lung tumor motion is a challenging and important problem for modern, highly conformal radiotherapy. Poorly managed tumor motion can lead to imaging artifacts, poor target coverage, and unnecessarily high dose to normal tissues. The goals of this dissertation are to develop a real-time localization algorithm that is applicable to rotational cone-beam projections ...

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163
Programs for Evaluation of 3D PET Reconstruction Algorithms
1994-02-01

... Accession Number : ADA331311. Title : Programs for Evaluation of 3D PET Reconstruction Algorithms. Corporate Author ...

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164
A Robust Algorithm for Isotropic Reconstruction of Magic ...
1992-04-23

... Accession Number : ADA249610. Title : A Robust Algorithm for Isotropic Reconstruction of Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectra. ...

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165
Iterative CT reconstruction integrating SART and conjugate gradient
2011-03-01

Iterative CT reconstruction methods have advantages over analytical reconstruction methods because of their robustness to both noise and incomplete projection data, which have great potential for dose reduction in real applications. The SART algorithm, which is one of the well-established iterative reconstruction ...

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166
Intraoperative 3D reconstruction of prostate brachytherapy implants with automatic pose correction.
2011-07-19

The success of prostate brachytherapy critically depends on delivering adequate dose to the prostate gland, and the capability of intraoperatively localizing implanted seeds provides potential for dose evaluation and optimization during therapy. REDMAPS is a recently reported algorithm that carries out seed localization by detecting, matching and ...

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167
Intraoperative 3D reconstruction of prostate brachytherapy implants with automatic pose correction
2011-08-01

The success of prostate brachytherapy critically depends on delivering adequate dose to the prostate gland, and the capability of intraoperatively localizing implanted seeds provides potential for dose evaluation and optimization during therapy. REDMAPS is a recently reported algorithm that carries out seed localization by detecting, matching and ...

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168
A hybrid method for more efficient channel-by-channel reconstruction with many channels.
2011-06-28

In MRI, imaging using receiving coil arrays with a large number of elements is an area of growing interest. With increasing channel numbers for parallel acquisition, longer reconstruction times have become a significant concern. Channel reduction techniques have been proposed to reduce the processing time of channel-by-channel reconstruction ...

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169
On the properties and limitations of the height function method in two-dimensional Cartesian geometry
2011-02-01

In this study we define the continuous height function to investigate the approximation of an interface line and its geometrical properties with the height function method. We show that in each mixed cell the piecewise linear interface reconstruction and the approximation of the derivatives and curvature based on three consecutive height function values are second-order ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

170
Using the STOMP (Seismic TOMography Program) Program for tomography with strong ray bending
1987-08-31

Accurate tomographic reconstructions of sound wave speed and attenuation are more difficult to obtain than are the corresponding reconstructions for x-rays or high frequency electromagnetic probes. The source of the difficulty is the common occurrence of large contrasts in acoustic or seismic wave speeds, leading to refraction and ...

Energy Citations Database

171
Transport-theory based multispectral imaging with PDE-constrained optimization
2011-02-01

We introduce here a transport-theory-based PDE-constrained multispectral imaging algorithm for direct reconstruction of the spatial distribution of chromophores in tissue. The method solves the forward and inverse problems simultaneously in the framework of a reduced Hessian sequential quadratic programming method. The performance of the new ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

172
Non-oscillatory spectral element Chebyshev method for shock wave calculations
1993-07-01

A new algorithm based on spectral element discretization and non-oscillatory ideas is developed for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations. A conservative formulation is proposed based on cell averaging and reconstruction procedures, that employs a staggered grid of Gauss-Chebyshev and Gauss-Lobatto-Chebyshev discretizations. The ...

Energy Citations Database

173
Improved biological network reconstruction using graph laplacian regularization.
2011-06-24

Abstract Biological networks reconstruction is a crucial step towards the functional characterization and elucidation of living cells. Computational methods for inferring the structure of these networks are of paramount importance since they provide valuable information regarding organization and behavior of the cell at a system level and also enable careful design of wet-lab ...

PubMed

174
Implementation of simultaneous attenuation and detector response correction in SPECT
1988-02-01

Simultaneous correction of attenuation and detector response was implemented in Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image reconstruction. The authors developed a ray-driven projector-backprotector which exactly models attenuation in the reconstructed image slice and the spatially variant detector response. The projector-backprotector was ...

Energy Citations Database

175
Searches for new particles using cone and cluster jet algorithms: a comparative study.
1993-01-01

We discuss the reconstruction of the hadronic decays of heavy particles using jet algorithms. The ability to reconstruct the mass of the decaying particle is compared between a traditional cone-type algorithm and a recently proposed cluster-type algorithm...

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

176
Iterative Multi-Resolution Shape-from-Shading Algorithm and Its Application to Planetary Mapping.
1986-01-01

Experimentation with an algorithm for reconstructing the 3-D structure of a scene from a single image is reported. The algorithm is the synthesis of a two-step reconstruction of elevation maps with multiresolution iterative algorithms. Performance of the ...

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

177
Magnetic Resonance Poroelastography: An Algorithm for Estimating the Mechanical Properties of Fluid-Saturated Soft Tissues
2010-03-01

Magnetic Resonance Poroelastography (MRPE) is introduced as an alternative to single-phase model-based elastographic reconstruction methods. A three-dimensional (3D) finite element poroelastic inversion algorithm was developed to recover the mechanical properties of fluid-saturated tissues. The performance of this algorithm was ...

PubMed Central

178
A wavelet-based regularized reconstruction algorithm for SENSE parallel MRI with applications to neuroimaging.
2010-11-23

To reduce scanning time and/or improve spatial/temporal resolution in some Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) applications, parallel MRI acquisition techniques with multiple coils acquisition have emerged since the early 1990s as powerful imaging methods that allow a faster acquisition process. In these techniques, the full FOV image has to be reconstructed from the resulting ...

PubMed

179
Effect of Novel Amplitude/Phase Binning Algorithm on Commercial Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography Quality
2008-01-01

Purpose: Respiratory motion is a significant source of anatomic uncertainty in radiotherapy planning and can result in errors of portal size and the subsequent radiation dose. Although four-dimensional computed tomography allows for more accurate analysis of the respiratory cycle, breathing irregularities during data acquisition can cause considerable image distortions. The ...

Energy Citations Database

180
Automated 3-D reconstruction of the surface of live early-stage amphibian embryos.
2005-08-01

Although three-dimensional (3-D) reconstructions of the surfaces of live embyos are vital to understanding embryo development, morphogenetic tissue movements and other factors have prevented the automation of this task. Here, we report an integrated set of software algorithms that overcome these challenges, making it possible to completely automate the ...

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181
A Fourier rebinning algorithm for cone beam CT
2008-04-01

It is known that x-ray projections collected from a circular orbit of an x-ray source are insufficient for accurate reconstruction of a 3D object. For each local region of the object (except in the plane containing the source trajectory) there is a conical volume in the object's spatial frequency space that is unmeasured due to the circular geometry. The ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

182
Algorithmic depth compensation improves quantification and noise suppression in functional diffuse optical tomography.
2010-08-02

Accurate depth localization and quantitative recovery of a regional activation are the major challenges in functional diffuse optical tomography (DOT). The photon density drops severely with increased depth, for which conventional DOT reconstruction yields poor depth localization and quantitative recovery. Recently we have developed a depth compensation ...

PubMed

183
A practical method for three-dimensional reconstruction of joints using a C-arm system and shift-and-add algorithm
2005-06-15

Currently, radiography with C-arm systems is playing a major role in the assessment of arthritis. However, the radiographic two-dimensional projection images of joints often interfere with physicians' efforts to better understand and measure the structure changes of joints due to the overlap of bone structures at different depths. An accurate, low-cost, and practical ...

Energy Citations Database

184
Automatic segmentation of seeds and fluoroscope tracking (FTRAC) fiducial in prostate brachytherapy x-ray images
2010-03-01

C-arm X-ray fluoroscopy-based radioactive seed localization for intraoperative dosimetry of prostate brachytherapy is an active area of research. The fluoroscopy tracking (FTRAC) fiducial is an image-based tracking device composed of radio-opaque BBs, lines, and ellipses that provides an effective means for pose estimation so that three-dimensional reconstruction of the ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

185
Robust megavoltage x-ray spectra estimation from transmission measurements.
2009-01-01

Megavoltage X-ray sources are commonly used for therapy planning, and knowledge of their spectral distribution is important for accurate dose calculations. There are many methods that could provide reasonable estimations of Megavoltage X-ray spectra, when very accurate attenuation data or at least very good set of initial guesses of the spectra are ...

PubMed

186
Three-dimensional selective imaging of sound sources
2009-03-01

A technique for 3-D selective imaging of sound sources is described analytically and demonstrated experimentally. One-dimensional recordings of the acoustic field is measured using laser vibrometry. By applying digital holographic and tomographic algorithms to the acquired 1-D data, the full 3-D complex amplitude is reconstructed. The use of multiple ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

187
Multi-spectral Based Cell Segmentation and Analysis
1995-01-01

The polychrome analysis of biological samples can yield information usually masked in monochrome or even color analysis. This paper shows that after an accurate choice of the spectral bands, the information obtained can be useful for image analysis purposes (such as segmentation) and also for biochemical analysis through absorption or fluorescence measurements. After a ...

E-print Network

188
Measuring the ions momentum vector with a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer
2011-05-01

A technique to measure the momentum vector of the ions produced in a nuclear reaction and analyzed by a magnetic spectrometer is presented. It consists of a powerful procedure for the reconstruction of the ions trajectory based on the use of a focal plane detector, accurate three-dimensional models of the magnetic fields and efficient ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

189
Iterative motion compensated reconstruction for parallel imaging using an orbital navigator.
2011-04-01

A new navigator-guided motion-compensated MR image reconstruction for segmented Cartesian imaging using multiple reception coils is presented. In-plane patient motion, comprising translation and rotation, is quantified for each scan segment by an orbital navigator. A robust and accurate approach to extract the motion parameters from the orbital navigator ...

PubMed

190
Image covariance and lesion detectability in direct fan-beam x-ray computed tomography.
2008-04-18

We consider noise in computed tomography images that are reconstructed using the classical direct fan-beam filtered backprojection algorithm, from both full- and short-scan data. A new, accurate method for computing image covariance is presented. The utility of the new covariance method is demonstrated by its application to the ...

PubMed

191
Globally constrained deformable models for 3D object reconstruction
1998-01-01

To achieve geometric reconstruction from 3D datasets two complementary approaches have been widely used. On one hand the deformable model framework locally applies forces to t the data. On the other hand, the non-rigid registration framework computes a global transformation minimizing the distance between a template and the data. We rst show that applying a global ...

E-print Network

192
Coherent laser scanning diffraction microscopy
2009-09-01

Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) is a promising approach to high-resolution x-ray microscopy. While CDI typically has a rather limited field of view, this problem can be solved by ptychography, a technique for which an extended object is raster scanned by a compact coherent illumination probe. Significant overlap of illumination for adjacent scan points allows then a self-consistent ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

193
An investigation of accuracy of iterative reconstructions in quantitative SPECT
2008-07-01

The iterative methods of image reconstructions represent the promising way for recovering the activity distribution from nuclear medicine acquisitions. One of the clinical areas where the accurate estimation of activity is extremely important is the radiotherapy of tumours. The goal of this study is to estimate the accuracy of the currently used in clinics ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

194
A tomography system at the thermal neutron column of the ENEA Casaccia TRIGA reactor
2002-01-01

The developed system is intended for use at a collimated thermal neutron beam with a flux of about 106 n/cm2s. The system works with a cooled CCD array (192�165 pixels) and an intensifier for light from a NE426 scintillator with traditional optical coupling. A fine mechanical regulation system allows an accurate positioning of the tomographer, also ensuring the alignment of ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

195
2D and 3D reconstructions in acousto-electric tomography
2011-05-01

We propose and test stable algorithms for the reconstruction of the internal conductivity of a biological object using acousto-electric measurements. Namely, the conventional impedance tomography scheme is supplemented by scanning the object with acoustic waves that slightly perturb the conductivity and cause the change in the electric potential measured ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

196
Parallel and Deterministic Algorithms from MRFs (Markov ...
1989-05-01

... Title : Parallel and Deterministic Algorithms from MRFs (Markov Random Fields): Surface Reconstruction and Integration. ...

DTIC Science & Technology

197
Introduction to Gleam

Introduction to Gleam. " Major release is imminent - end October ... Algorithms. Level 0. Reconstruction. Algorithms. Ntuple. Service. Persistency. Service ...

NASA Website

198
Fast Rational Function Reconstruction ?

hence overall efficiency, depend on the size of the rationals ... Encarnacion's algorithm is often much faster in practice. Wang's Algorithm ...

E-print Network

199
Improvement based on FDK reconstruction algorithm of conebeam CT
2010-02-01

As a typical 3D image algorithm, Feldkamp-David-Kress reconstruction algorithm is a filtered backprojection very similar to the 2D algorithm. Recent years, it has been widely used for its easy implementation and acceptable reconstruction precision for small cone-beam angle. For big cone-beam ...

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

200
SPECT assay of radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies
1992-02-01

The accurate determination of the biodistribution of radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) is important for calculation of dosimetry and evaluation of pharmacokinetic variables such as antibody dose and route of administration. The hypothesis of this application is that the biodistribution of radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) can be quantitatively determined ...

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