Tomography

Tomography is an imaging technique that combines projections taken from different directions into a reconstruction of the interior of a patient or an object. The ASTRA research group (“All Scales Tomographic Reconstruction Antwerp”) of imec-Vision Lab develops tomographic reconstruction algorithms for electron, X-ray, neutron, and magnetic resonance imaging. The ASTRA group developed the ASTRA-Toolbox, which is an open source, GPU accelerated software platform for the development of novel tomographic reconstruction methods; it can be downloaded from www.astra-toolbox.com.

Key expertises:

  • Phase contrast X-ray CT (edge illumination and grating based interferometry)
  • X-ray tomography for non-standard acquisition geometries (e.g. laminography, tomosynthesis, ...)
  • Dynamic (4D) tomography
  • Discrete tomography
  • Electron tomography

Journal publications

2010

R. Pinho, “A Decision Support System for the Assessment and Stenting of Tracheal Stenosis”, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, 2010.PDF icon Download thesis (3.48 MB)
K. J. Batenburg, Sijbers, J., Poulsen, H. F., and Knudsen, E., “DART: A Robust Algorithm for Fast Reconstruction of 3D Grain Maps”, Journal of Applied Crystallography, vol. 43, pp. 1464-1473, 2010.PDF icon Download paper (824.99 KB)

2009

H. E. Bortier, Bernat, A., Huysmans, T., Van Glabbeek, F., Sijbers, J., Pinho, R., Gielen, J., and Hubens, G., “Osteologic exploration of the clavicle: a new approach”, The FASEB Journal, vol. 23, 2009.
G. Van Gompel, “Towards accurate image reconstruction from truncated X-ray CT projections”, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, 2009.PDF icon Download thesis (3.2 MB)
A. Postnov, De Schutter, T. T., Sijbers, J., Karperien, M., and De Clerck, N., “Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis in Growing Mice Is Not Prevented by Simultaneous Intermittent PTH Treatment”, Calcified Tissue International, vol. 85, pp. 530-537, 2009.PDF icon Download paper (344.96 KB)
K. J. Batenburg and Sijbers, J., “Generic iterative subset algorithms for discrete tomography”, Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 157, pp. 438-451, 2009.PDF icon Download paper (1.41 MB)
K. J. Batenburg and Sijbers, J., “Adaptive thresholding of tomograms by projection distance minimization”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 42, pp. 2297-2305, 2009.PDF icon Download paper (1.05 MB)
K. J. Batenburg, Bals, S., Sijbers, J., Kubel, C., Midgley, P. A., Hernandez, J. C., Kaiser, U., Encina, E. R., Coronado, E. A., and Van Tendeloo, G., “3D imaging of nanomaterials by discrete tomography”, Ultramicroscopy, vol. 109, pp. 730-740, 2009.
G. Van Gompel, Defrise, M., and Batenburg, K. J., “Reconstruction of a uniform star object from interior x-ray data: uniqueness, stability and algorithm”, Inverse Problems, vol. 25, 2009.
K. J. Batenburg and Sijbers, J., “Optimal Threshold Selection for Tomogram Segmentation by Projection Distance Minimization”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 28, pp. 676-686, 2009.PDF icon Download full paper (2.51 MB)

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