Quantitative X-ray phase contrast computed tomography with grating interferometry: Biomedical applications of quantitative X-ray grating-based phase contrast …

L Birnbacher, EM Braig, D Pfeiffer, F Pfeiffer… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The ability of biomedical imaging data to be of quantitative nature is getting increasingly
important with the ongoing developments in data science. In contrast to conventional …

Grating-based phase-contrast and dark-field computed tomography: a single-shot method

M Teuffenbach, T Koehler, A Fehringer, M Viermetz… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Grating-based X-ray interferometry offers vast potential for imaging materials and tissues
that are not easily visualised using conventional X-ray imaging. Tomographic reconstruction …

Penalized maximum likelihood reconstruction for x‐ray differential phase‐contrast tomography

B Brendel, M von Teuffenbach, PB Noël… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this work is to propose a cost function with regularization to
iteratively reconstruct attenuation, phase, and scatter images simultaneously from differential …

Accelerated fast iterative shrinkage thresholding algorithms for sparsity‐regularized cone‐beam CT image reconstruction

Q Xu, D Yang, J Tan, A Sawatzky… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The development of iterative image reconstruction algorithms for cone‐beam
computed tomography (CBCT) remains an active and important research area. Even with …

Fast iterative reconstruction of differential phase contrast X-ray tomograms

M Nilchian, C Vonesch, P Modregger… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Differential phase-contrast is a recent technique in the context of X-ray imaging. In order to
reduce the specimen's exposure time, we propose a new iterative algorithm that can achieve …

Sparsity-regularized image reconstruction of decomposed K-edge data in spectral CT

Q Xu, A Sawatzky, MA Anastasio… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of spectral computed tomography (CT) using binned photon-counting
detectors has garnered great interest in recent years and has enabled selective imaging of K …

Optimized Kaiser–Bessel window functions for computed tomography

M Nilchian, JP Ward, C Vonesch… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Kaiser-Bessel window functions are frequently used to discretize tomographic problems
because they have two desirable properties: 1) their short support leads to a low …

Fast 3D reconstruction method for differential phase contrast X-ray CT

MT McCann, M Nilchian, M Stampanoni, M Unser - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present a fast algorithm for fully 3D regularized X-ray tomography reconstruction for both
traditional and differential phase contrast measurements. In many applications, it is critical to …

Exact gram filtering and efficient backprojection for iterative CT reconstruction

Z Shu, A Entezari - Medical Physics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Forward and backprojections are the basis of all model‐based iterative
reconstruction (MBIR) methods. However, computing these accurately is time‐consuming. In …

Discrete imaging models for three-dimensional optoacoustic tomography using radially symmetric expansion functions

K Wang, RW Schoonover, R Su… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optoacoustic tomography (OAT), also known as photoacoustic tomography, is an emerging
computed biomedical imaging modality that exploits optical contrast and ultrasonic detection …