Title
Model-based iterative reconstruction for synchrotron X-ray tomography
Abstract
Synchrotron based X-ray tomography is widely used for three dimensional imaging of materials at the micron scale. Tomographic data collected from a synchrotron is often affected by non-idealities in the measurement system and sudden “blinding” of detector pixels during the acquisition. Typically, reconstructions are done using analytical reconstruction techniques combined with pre/post-processing steps to correct for the non-idealities, resulting in loss of detail while still producing noisy reconstructions with some artifacts. In this paper, we present a model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithm for synchrotron X-ray tomography that can automatically handle the non-idealities as a part of the reconstruction. First, we develop a forward model that accounts for the non-idealities in the measurement system and for the occurrence of outliers in the measurement. Next, we combine the forward model with a prior model of the object to formulate the MBIR cost function and propose an algorithm to minimize the cost. Results on a real data set show that the MBIR reconstructions are superior to the analytical reconstructions effectively suppressing noise as well as other artifacts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854939
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
computerised tomography,image reconstruction,iterative methods,synchrotrons,analytical reconstruction techniques,model based iterative reconstruction,synchrotron X-ray tomography,three dimensional imaging
Iterative reconstruction,Computer vision,Tomographic reconstruction,System of measurement,Computer science,Synchrotron,Outlier,Tomography,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Detector
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
3
0.41
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
K. Aditya Mohan1163.24
S. V. Venkatakrishnan21138.59
Lawrence F. Drummy3363.21
Jeff Simmons4365.15
Dilworth Y. Parkinson542.51
Charles A. Bouman62740473.62