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. conveyor belt, laminography, tomosynthesis, 4DCT, ...)
  • THz tomography
  • Atom probe tomography
  • Electron tomography

Journal publications

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.
M. Van Dael, Rogge, S., Verboven, P., Saeys, W., Sijbers, J., and Nicolai, B., “Online Tomato Inspection Using X-Ray Radiographies and 3- Dimensional Shape Models”, Chemical Engineering Transactions, vol. 44, pp. 37-42, 2015.
W. Van Aarle, Palenstijn, W. J., De Beenhouwer, J., Altantzis, T., Bals, S., Batenburg, K. J., and Sijbers, J., “The ASTRA Toolbox: a platform for advanced algorithm development in electron tomography”, Ultramicroscopy, vol. 157, pp. 35–47, 2015.PDF icon Download paper (3.47 MB)
D. Kazantsev, Van Eyndhoven, G., Lionheart, W. R. B., Withers, P. J., Dobson, K. J., McDonald, S. A., Atwood, R., and Lee, P. D., “Employing temporal self-similarity across the entire time domain in computed tomography reconstruction”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 373, 2015.
D. Kazantsev, Thompson, W. M., Lionheart, W. R. B., Van Eyndhoven, G., Kaestner, A. P., Dobson, K. J., Withers, P. J., and Lee, P. D., “4D-CT reconstruction with unified spatial-temporal patch-based regularization”, Inverse Problems and Imaging, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 447-467, 2015.
J. Cant, Palenstijn, W. J., Behiels, G., and Sijbers, J., “Modeling blurring effects due to continuous gantry rotation: application to region of interest tomography”, Medical Physics, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 2709-2717, 2015.
W. Van Aarle, Ludwig, W., King, A., and Penumadu, D., “An accurate projection model for diffraction image formation and inversion using a polychromatic cone beam”, Journal of Applied Crystallography, vol. 48, pp. 334-343, 2015.

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