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

2012

W. Van Aarle, Batenburg, K. J., and Sijbers, J., Automatic parameter estimation for the Discrete Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (DART), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 4608-4621, 2012.PDF icon Download paper (3.91 MB)

2011

K. J. Batenburg and Sijbers, J., DART: A practical reconstruction algorithm for discrete tomography, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 20, pp. 2542-2553, 2011.PDF icon Download paper (2.12 MB)

2010

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