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

2016

F. Bleichrodt, van Leeuwen, T., Palenstijn, W. J., Van Aarle, W., Sijbers, J., and Batenburg, K. J., “Easy implementation of advanced tomography algorithms using the ASTRA toolbox with Spot operators”, Numerical Algorithms, vol. 71, pp. 673-697, 2016.
G. Van Steenkiste, Jeurissen, B., Veraart, J., den Dekker, A. J., Parizel, P. M., Poot, D. H. J., and Sijbers, J., “Super-resolution reconstruction of diffusion parameters from diffusion-weighted images with different slice orientations”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 181-195, 2016.

2015

N. Roberto Vigano, “Full-field X-ray orientation imaging using convex optimization and a discrete representation of six-dimensional position - orientation space”, 2015.
A. Dabravolski, “Towards In Loco X-ray Computed Tomography”, 2015.
G. Van Eyndhoven, “Model-based iterative reconstruction algorithms for computed tomography”, 2015.PDF icon Download thesis (4.93 MB)
D. Zanaga, Bleichrodt, F., Altantzis, T., Winckelmans, N., Palenstijn, W. J., Sijbers, J., van Nijs, B., van Huis, M. A., van Blaaderen, A., Sánchez-Iglesias, A., Liz-Marzán, L. M., Batenburg, K. J., Bals, S., and Van Tendeloo, G., “Quantitative 3D analysis of huge nanoparticle assemblies”, Nanoscale, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 292-299, 2015.
V. Van Nieuwenhove, De Beenhouwer, J., De Carlo, F., Mancini, L., Marone, F., and Sijbers, J., “Dynamic intensity normalization using eigen flat fields in X-ray imaging”, Optics Express, vol. 23, no. 21, pp. 27975-27989, 2015.Package icon Download Matlab code (2.92 MB)PDF icon Download paper (1.68 MB)
B. Goris, De Beenhouwer, J., De Backer, A., Zanaga, D., Batenburg, K. J., Sánchez-Iglesias, A., Liz-Marzán, L. M., Van Aert, S., Bals, S., Sijbers, J., and Van Tendeloo, G., “Measuring Lattice Strain in Three Dimensions through Electron Microscopy”, Nano Letters, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 6996–7001, 2015.
G. Van Eyndhoven, Batenburg, K. J., Kazantsev, D., Van Nieuwenhove, V., Lee, P. D., Dobson, K. J., and Sijbers, J., “An iterative CT reconstruction algorithm for fast fluid flow imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4446-4458, 2015.
E. Janssens, Pelt, D., De Beenhouwer, J., Van Dael, M., Verboven, P., Nicolai, B., and Sijbers, J., “Fast Neural Network Based X-Ray Tomography of Fruit on a Conveyor Belt”, Chemical Engineering Transactions, vol. 44, pp. 181-186, 2015.

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