CT & Mathematics

3/24/99


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Table of Contents

CT & Mathematics

Outline

A Little Bit History

Exponential Attenuation of X-ray

Ray-Sum of X-ray Attenuation

Completeness Condition

First Generation

Third Generation

Projection & Sinogram

Computed Tomography

Spiral CT Scanner

Radon Transform

Related Transforms

Outline

Heuristics 1: Sum Game

Approach 1: Linear Algebra

Let Us Guess

Linear Blurring Model

Algo 1.1. EM Iterative Deblurring

Why EM Iterative Deblurring?

Algo 1.2. ART Iterative Deblurring

Heuristics 2: Wave Decomposition

Approach 2: Transformation

Fourier Transformation

Fourier Slice Theorem

From Projections to Image

Algo 2.1. Filtered Backprojection

Derivative-Free Fan-Beam Formula

Radon & Fourier Transforms

Backprojection

Unified Inversion Formula

Heuristics 3: Peeling an Onion

Approach 3: Series Expansion

Algo 3.1. Series Expansion

Algo 3.1. Series Expansion

Exterior Problem

Outline

What is Cone-Beam Tomography?

AMIL X-ray Cone-Beam ?CT System

Completeness Condition: Cone-Beam

From Cone-Beam to Radon Data

Generalized Feldkamp Algorithm

Real Cone-Beam Reconstruction

What is Real-Time Tomography?

Row-Action EM Deblurring

Speed Improvement

Simulation - RAEM for MAR

Simulation - RAEM for Denoising

CT Phantom Test - RAEM

Further Readings

Acknowledgments

Email: ge-wang@uiowa.edu

Home Page: http://dolphin.radiology.uiowa.edu/ge