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:

  • Discrete tomography
  • X-ray tomography for non-standard acquisition geometries
  • Electron tomography
  • Dynamic (4D) tomography

Journal publications

2007

S. Bals, K. J. Batenburg, J. Verbeeck, J. Sijbers, and G. Van Tendeloo, "Quantitative three-dimensional reconstruction of catalyst particles for bamboo-like carbon nanotubes", Nano Letters, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 3669-3674, 2007. PDF icon Download full paper (318.46 KB)

2004

E. Van de Casteele, D. Van Dyck, J. Sijbers, and E. Raman, "A model-based correction method for beam hardening artefacts in X-ray microtomography", Journal of X-ray science and technology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 53-57, 2004. PDF icon Download full paper (581.05 KB)
J. Sijbers, and A. Postnov, "Reduction of ring artifacts in high resolution micro-CT reconstructions", Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 49, no. 14, pp. 247-253, 2004.

2002

E. Van de Casteele, D. Van Dyck, J. Sijbers, and E. Raman, "An energy-based beam hardening model in tomography", Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 47, no. 23, pp. 4181-4190, 2002. PDF icon Download full paper (203.21 KB)

1999

A J. den Dekker, J. Sijbers, and D. Van Dyck, "How to optimize the design of a quantitative HREM experiment so as to attain the highest precision", Journal of Microscopy, vol. 194, no. 1, pp. 95-104, 1999. PDF icon Download full paper (601.48 KB)

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