Recent developments on Compton scatter tomography: theory and numerical simulations

TT Truong, MK Nguyen - Numerical Simulation-From Theory to …, 2012 - books.google.com
Progress in nuclear physics acquired during World War II has naturally led many scientists to
devote their research activities to the field of tomographic imaging techniques using ionizing …

Compton scatter tomography in TOF-PET

H Hemmati, A Kamali-Asl, M Ay… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Scatter coincidences contain hidden information about the activity distribution on the
positron emission tomography (PET) imaging system. However, in conventional …

A new concept of Compton Scattering tomography and the development of the corresponding circular Radon transform

C Tarpau, J Cebeiro, MA Morvidone… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new modality of Compton scattering tomography (CST) is presented. This model is
composed of a fixed source and detectors placed on a fixed ring passing through the source …

On the inversion of the Radon transform on a generalized Cormack-type class of curves

G Rigaud - Inverse Problems, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In 1981 Cormack studied the Radon transform defined on a family of curves and
showed their inversion through their circular harmonic expansions. In this paper we propose …

A spectral geometric model for Compton single scatter in PET based on the single scatter simulation approximation

IG Kazantsev, UL Olsen, HF Poulsen… - Inverse …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the idealized mathematical model of single scatter in PET for a detector
system possessing excellent energy resolution. The model has the form of integral …

A novel modality of Compton scattering tomography, image formation and reconstruction

C Tarpau, MK Nguyen - Proceedings of the International …, 2018 - search.proquest.com
A new modality of Compton Scattering Tomography (CST) is presented. This model allows
image acquisition and reconstruction using a fixed source and detectors placed on a fixed …

The impact of the number of projections on image quality in Compton scatter tomography

T Chighvinadze, S Pistorius - Journal of X-ray Science and …, 2015 - content.iospress.com
The availability of high resolution, energy discriminating photon counting detectors should
make it possible to use Compton scattered photons to improve the diagnostic capability of …

The effect of detector size and energy resolution on image quality in multi-projection Compton scatter tomography

T Chighvinadze, S Pistorius - Journal of X-Ray Science and …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
The reconstructed electron density image quality is sensitive to the detector size and energy
resolution, which contribute to the blurring and noise in the image. This work evaluates …

Reconstruction method for x-ray imaging capsule

D Rubin, R Lifshitz, O Bar-Ilan, N Weiss… - … 2017: Physics of …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A colon imaging capsule has been developed by Check-Cap Ltd (C-Scan® Cap). For the
procedure, the patient swallows a small amount of standard iodinated contrast agent. To …

Transmission-like calibration-free tomographic reconstruction with Compton-scattered photons

EMA Hussein, E Enjilela - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image-reconstruction with Compton-scattered photons is a nonlinear problem, because it
involves both the linear process of scattering and the exponential pre-and post-scatter …