Pelt, DM;
Roche I Morgó, O;
Maughan Jones, C;
Olivo, A;
Hagen, CK;
(2022)
Cycloidal CT with CNN-based sinogram completion and in-scan generation of training data.
Scientific Reports
, 12
, Article 893. 10.1038/s41598-022-04910-y.
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Abstract
In x-ray computed tomography (CT), the achievable image resolution is typically limited by several pre-fixed characteristics of the x-ray source and detector. Structuring the x-ray beam using a mask with alternating opaque and transmitting septa can overcome this limit. However, the use of a mask imposes an undersampling problem: to obtain complete datasets, significant lateral sample stepping is needed in addition to the sample rotation, resulting in high x-ray doses and long acquisition times. Cycloidal CT, an alternative scanning scheme by which the sample is rotated and translated simultaneously, can provide high aperture-driven resolution without sample stepping, resulting in a lower radiation dose and faster scans. However, cycloidal sinograms are incomplete and must be restored before tomographic images can be computed. In this work, we demonstrate that high-quality images can be reconstructed by applying the recently proposed Mixed Scale Dense (MS-D) convolutional neural network (CNN) to this task. We also propose a novel training approach by which training data are acquired as part of each scan, thus removing the need for large sets of pre-existing reference data, the acquisition of which is often not practicable or possible. We present results for both simulated datasets and real-world data, showing that the combination of cycloidal CT and machine learning-based data recovery can lead to accurate high-resolution images at a limited dose.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cycloidal CT with CNN-based sinogram completion and in-scan generation of training data |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-04910-y |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04910-y |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142455 |
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