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

2013

K. J. Batenburg, Palenstijn, W. J., Balazs, P., and Sijbers, J., “Dynamic angle selection in binary tomography”, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 117, no. 5, pp. 306–318, 2013.PDF icon Download paper (2.71 MB)
B. Goris, Roelandts, T., Batenburg, K. J., Heidari Mezerji, H., and Bals, S., “Advanced reconstruction algorithms for electron tomography: from comparison to combination”, Ultramicroscopy, vol. 127, pp. 40–47, 2013.

2012

P. Lo, van Ginneken, B., Reinhardt, J. M., Yavarna, T., de Jong, P. A., Irving, B., Fetita, C., Ortner, M., Pinho, R., Sijbers, J., Feuerstein, M., Fabijańska, A., Bauer, C., Beichel, R., Mendoza, C. S., Wiemker, R., Lee, J., Reeves, A. P., Born, S., Weinheimer, O., van Rikxoort, E. M., Tschirren, J., Mori, K., Odry, B., Naidich, D. P., Hartmann, I., Hoffman, E. A., Prokop, M., Pedersen, J. H., and de Bruijne, M., “Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT'09).”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 2093-107, 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)
W. Van Aarle, “Tomographic segmentation and discrete tomography for quantitative analysis of transmission tomography data”, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2012.PDF icon Download PhD thesis (39.16 MB)
T. Roelandts, Batenburg, K. J., Biermans, E., Kubel, C., Bals, S., and Sijbers, J., “Accurate segmentation of dense nanoparticles by partially discrete electron tomography”, Ultramicroscopy, vol. 114, pp. 96-105, 2012.PDF icon Download paper (1.71 MB)

2011

W. J. Palenstijn, Batenburg, K. J., and Sijbers, J., “Performance improvements for iterative electron tomography reconstruction using graphics processing units (GPUs)”, Journal of structural biology, vol. 176, no. 2, pp. 250-253, 2011.PDF icon Download paper (527.21 KB)
G. Van Gompel, Van Slambrouck, K., Defrise, M., Batenburg, K. J., De Mey, J., Sijbers, J., and Nuyts, J., “Iterative correction of beam hardening artifacts in CT”, Medical Physics, vol. 38, pp. 36-49, 2011.
W. Van Aarle, Batenburg, K. J., and Sijbers, J., “Optimal threshold selection for segmentation of dense homogeneous objects in tomographic reconstructions”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 30, pp. 980-989, 2011.PDF icon Download paper (1.59 MB)
R. Pinho, Tournoy, K. G., and Sijbers, J., “Assessment and Stenting of Tracheal Stenosis using Deformable Shape Models”, Medical Image Analysis, vol. 15, pp. 250-266, 2011.

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