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

2009

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)

2007

S. Bals, Batenburg, K. J., Verbeeck, J., Sijbers, J., and Van Tendeloo, G., “Quantitative three-dimensional reconstruction of catalyst particles for bamboo-like carbon nanotubes”, Nano Letters, vol. 7, pp. 3669-3674, 2007.
Z. Mai, Huysmans, T., and Sijbers, J., “Colon Visualization Using Cylindrical Parameterization”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4678, pp. 607-615, 2007.PDF icon Full text (1.44 MB)

2004

J. Sijbers and Postnov, A., “Reduction of ring artifacts in high resolution micro-CT reconstructions”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 49, pp. 247-253, 2004.
E. Van de Casteele, Van Dyck, D., Sijbers, J., and Raman, E., “A model-based correction method for beam hardening artefacts in X-ray microtomography”, Journal of X-ray science and technology, vol. 12, pp. 53-57, 2004.PDF icon Download full paper (632.04 KB)

2002

E. Van de Casteele, Van Dyck, D., Sijbers, J., and Raman, E., “An energy-based beam hardening model in tomography”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 47, pp. 4181-4190, 2002.PDF icon Download full paper (203.21 KB)

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