TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION OF FAN-BEAM PROJECTIONS WITH EQUIDISTANT DETECTORS USING PARTIALLY CONNECTED NEURAL NETWORKS

Learning and Nonlinear Models - Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Redes Neurais, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 122-130, 2003
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Figure 1: Reconstructed images from projections of the same synthetic phantom (Shepp-Logan) using parallel beam
reconstruction geometry. (a) Projections generated by parallel beam. (b) Projections generated by fan-beam (more realistic)
geometry lead to distorted image when parallel beam reconstruction is used.

Measuring the logarithm of the intensity ratio at different positions (s) for several angles (θ) leads to

The pair (s,θ) represents the ray coordinates related to the object. s is the shift from the center and θ the angle at which
the measurement is obtained. The values p(s,θ) form a image that is the projection obtained from these external measurements.
This image is also called sinogram because a single point in the object (f(x,y)) is mapped to a sinusoid in this projection space.

The reconstruction problem is to obtain f(x,y) from the projection p(s,θ).

The Radon transform describes the direct problem or projection generation process. The inverse problem, or reconstruction
process can be calculated by the inverse Radon transform, but this is seldom used due to its complexity:

."ι∫^π ∫⁺∞^dp(sθ^ds    ■■

2π² )^{Jo -}∞ r cos(θ - φ)

where (r,φ) are polar coordinates of the image to be reconstructed. It can be shown that f(r,φ) can also be calculated by
backprojecting q(s,θ) a high-pass filtered version of p(s,θ) [10,11]:

π

f(r, φ) = ∫ q (r cos(θ - φ),θ)dθ
0

where the backprojection operation is simply the accumulation of the ray-sums of all the rays that pass through the point (r,φ).
Most equipments use filter backprojection as the reconstruction algorithm, because it is easier to calculate. Among other
methods less used are Fourier Reconstruction and ART (Algebraic Reconstruction Techniques).

Figure 2: Radiation beam crossing an object, producing a “shadow” over the plate at the right-upper of figure.

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