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Chapter 3:
Image Reconstruction
Book: Computed Tomography: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances, Third Edition
Author(s): Jiang Hsieh
Published: 2015
https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2197756.ch3
Abstract
As discussed in Chapter 2, the object that we try to reconstruct can be considered a 2D distribution of some kind of function. For CT, this function represents the linear attenuation coefficients of the object. The problem imposed on the tomographic reconstruction can be stated as the following: Suppose we have collected a set of measurements, and each measurement represents the summation or line integral of the attenuation coefficients of the object along a particular ray path. These measurements are collected along different angles and different distances from the iso-center. To avoid redundancy in the data sampling, assume that the measurements are taken in the following sequence. First, we take a set of measurements along parallel paths that are uniformly spaced, as shown by the solid lines in Fig. 3.1. These measurements form a view or a projection. Then we repeat the same measurement process at a slightly different angle, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3.1. This process continues until the entire 360 deg (theoretically, only 180 deg of parallel projections are necessary) is covered. During the entire process, the angular increment between adjacent views remains constant, and the scanned object remains stationary. For CT reconstruction, the question is how to estimate the attenuation distribution of the scanned object based on these measurements.
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