NDLI: Image Reconstruction for Hybrid True-Color Micro-CT

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Author	Qiong Xu Hengyong Yu Bennett, J. Peng He Zainon, R. Doesburg, R. Opie, A. Walsh, M. Haiou Shen Butler, A. Butler, P. Xuanqin Mou Ge Wang
Copyright Year	1964
Abstract	X-ray micro-CT is an important imaging tool for biomedical researchers. Our group has recently proposed a hybrid “true-color” micro-CT system to improve contrast resolution with lower system cost and radiation dose. The system incorporates an energy-resolved photon-counting true-color detector into a conventional micro-CT configuration, and can be used for material decomposition. In this paper, we demonstrate an interior color-CT image reconstruction algorithm developed for this hybrid true-color micro-CT system. A compressive sensing-based statistical interior tomography method is employed to reconstruct each channel in the local spectral imaging chain, where the reconstructed global gray-scale image from the conventional imaging chain served as the initial guess. Principal component analysis was used to map the spectral reconstructions into the color space. The proposed algorithm was evaluated by numerical simulations, physical phantom experiments, and animal studies. The results confirm the merits of the proposed algorithm, and demonstrate the feasibility of the hybrid true-color micro-CT system. Additionally, a ``color diffusion'' phenomenon was observed whereby high-quality true-color images are produced not only inside the region of interest, but also in neighboring regions. It appears harnessing that this phenomenon could potentially reduce the color detector size for a given ROI, further reducing system cost and radiation dose.
Sponsorship	IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Page Count	9
File Size	7399537
Starting Page	1711
Ending Page	1719
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189294
Volume Number	59
Issue Number	6
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-06-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image reconstruction Imaging Gray-scale Photonics Detectors X-ray imaging Materials statistical interior tomography Color/spectral-CT micro-CT photon-counting
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biomedical Engineering

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