A joint reconstruction and lambda tomography regularization technique for energy-resolved x-ray imaging

DOI10.1088/1361-6420/AB8F82zbMATH Open1483.65236arXiv2002.05356OpenAlexW3006565814MaRDI QIDQ5116594FDOQ5116594

James W. Webber, Eric Todd Quinto, Eric Miller

Publication date: 18 August 2020

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Here we present new joint reconstruction and regularization techniques inspired by ideas in microlocal analysis and lambda tomography, for the simultaneous reconstruction of the attenuation coefficient and electron density from X-ray transmission (i.e., X-ray CT) and backscattered data (assumed to be primarily Compton scattered). To demonstrate our theory and reconstruction methods, we consider the "parallel line segment" acquisition geometry of Webber and Miller ("Compton scattering tomography in translational geometries." Inverse Problems 36, no. 2 (2020): 025007), which is motivated by system architectures currently under development for airport security screening. We first present a novel microlocal analysis of the parallel line geometry which explains the nature of image artefacts when the attenuation coefficient and electron density are reconstructed separately. We next introduce a new joint reconstruction scheme for low effective $Z$ (atomic number) imaging ($Z<20$) characterized by a regularization strategy whose structure is derived from lambda tomography principles and motivated directly by the microlocal analytic results. Finally we show the effectiveness of our method in combating noise and image artefacts on simulated phantoms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05356

zbMATH Keywords

microlocal analysisCompton scattering tomographylambda tomographyx-ray CTjoint reconstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08) Radon transform (44A12) Numerical methods for integral transforms (65R10) Numerical methods for inverse problems for integral equations (65R32) Inverse scattering problems in quantum theory (81U40)

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Uses Software

• Regularization tools
• UTV
• AIR tools

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