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

2021

J. Sanctorum, Van Wassenbergh, S., Nguyen, V., De Beenhouwer, J., Sijbers, J., and Dirckx, J. J. J., “Extended imaging volume in cone-beam x-ray tomography using the weighted simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique”, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 66, no. 16, 2021.PDF icon Download paper (4.28 MB)
T. Van De Looverbosch, Raeymaekers, E., Verboven, P., Sijbers, J., and Nicolai, B., “Non-destructive internal disorder detection of Conference pears by semantic segmentation of X-ray CT scans using deep learning”, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 176, no. 114925, pp. 1-12, 2021.
V. Nguyen, Sanctorum, J., Van Wassenbergh, S., Dirckx, J. J. J., Sijbers, J., and De Beenhouwer, J., “Geometry Calibration of a Modular Stereo Cone-Beam X-ray CT System”, Journal of Imaging, vol. 7, no. 54, pp. 1-12, 2021.PDF icon Download paper (4.2 MB)
J. Renders, Sijbers, J., and De Beenhouwer, J., “Adjoint image warping using multivariate splines with application to 4D-CT”, Medical Physics, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 6362-6374, 2021.PDF icon Download paper (6.28 MB)
M. Ljubenović, Zhuang, L., De Beenhouwer, J., and Sijbers, J., “Joint Deblurring and Denoising of THz Time-Domain Images”, IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 162-176, 2021.PDF icon Download paper (2.38 MB)
B. De Samber, Renders, J., Elberfeld, T., Maris, Y., Sanctorum, J., Six, N., Liang, Z., De Beenhouwer, J., and Sijbers, J., “FleXCT: a Flexible X-ray CT scanner with 10 degrees of freedom”, Optics Express, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 3438-3457, 2021.PDF icon Download paper (14.25 MB)
S. Bazrafkan, Van Nieuwenhove, V., Soons, J., De Beenhouwer, J., and Sijbers, J., “To Recurse or not to Recurse A Low Dose CT Study”, Progress in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 10, pp. 65–81, 2021.

2020

B. Auer, Kalluri, K., De Beenhouwer, J., Zeraatkar, N., Momsen, N., Kuo, P. H., Furenlid, L. R., and King, M. A., “Keel-Edge Height Selection for Improved Multi-Pinhole 123I Brain SPECT Imaging”, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 61, p. 573, 2020.PDF icon Download paper (127.73 KB)
B. Auer, Kalluri, K., De Beenhouwer, J., Doty, K., Zeraatkar, N., Kuo, P. H., Furenlid, L. R., and King, M. A., “Reconstruction using Depth of Interaction Information of Curved and Flat Detector Designs for Quantitative Multi-Pinhole Brain SPECT”, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, vol. 61, p. 103, 2020.PDF icon snm2020_recon_curved.pdf (103.23 KB)
J. Sanctorum, De Beenhouwer, J., and Sijbers, J., “X-ray phase contrast simulation for grating-based interferometry using GATE”, Optics Express, vol. 28, no. 22, pp. 33390-33412, 2020.PDF icon Download paper (2.5 MB)

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