O(N/sup 2/ log N) native fan-beam tomographic reconstruction

Shu Xiao1, Y. Bresler1, D.C. Munson1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Tóm tắt

We present a new fast backprojection algorithm for CT fan-beam reconstruction. The new algorithm operates directly on fan-beam data without prior rebinning to parallel-beam projections. The algorithm reduces the computational complexity from O(N/sup 3/) for the traditional fan-beam algorithm to O(N/sup 2/ log N). Simulations demonstrate speedups of greater than 50-fold for a 512 /spl times/ 512 image, with no perceivable degradation in accuracy. The algorithm also applies to multi-slice helical 3D reconstruction, and extends to 3D cone-beam reconstruction.

Từ khóa

#Image reconstruction #Geometry #Computed tomography #Degradation #Filtering #Computational efficiency #Interpolation #Image quality #Computational complexity #Computational modeling

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