An application of the finite element method to maximum entropy tomographic image reconstruction (Q1116681)
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An application of the finite element method to maximum entropy tomographic image reconstruction (English)
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1987
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A new approach to maximum entropy tomographic image reconstruction is presented. It is shown that by using a finite-dimensional subspace, one can obtain an approximation to the solution of a maximum entropy optimization problem, set in \(L^ 2(D)\). An example of an appropriate finite element subspace for a two-dimensional parallel beam projection geometry is examined. Particular attention is paid to the case where the x-ray projection data are sparse. In the current work, this means that the number of projections is small (in practise, perhaps only 5-20). A priori information in the form of known maximum and minimum densities of the materials being scanned is built into the model. A penalty function, added to the entropy term, is used to control the residual error in meeting the projection measurements. The power of the technique is illustrated by a sparse data reconstruction and the resulting image is compared to those obtained by a conventional method.
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Radon transform
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tomography
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maximum entropy tomographic image reconstruction
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maximum entropy optimization
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finite element
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parallel beam projection geometry
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x-ray projection data
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penalty function
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sparse data reconstruction
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