1. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 1 X-Ray Computed Tomography Radon Transform Fourier Slice Theorem Backprojection Operator Filtered Backprojection (FBP) Algorithm Implementation Issues Total Variation Reconstruction

2. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 2 X-Ray Tomography  “Tomography” comes from Greek and means cross-sectional representations of a 3D object  X-ray tomography, introduced by Hounsfield in 1971, is usually called computed tomography (CT)  CT produces images of human anatonomy with a resolution of about 1mm and an attenuation coefficient attenuation of about 1% S R body L dl

3. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 3 CT images (from wikipedia)

4. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 4 X-Ray Tomography Radon transform

5. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 5 Example of Radon Transform: sinogram

6. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 6 Example of Radon Transform: sin0gram

7. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 7 Fourier Slice Theorem

8. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 8 Fourier Slice Theorem: Illustration

9. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 9 Fourier Slice Theorem: Consequences 1- The solution of the inverse problem, when exists, is unique 2- The knowledge of the the Radom transform of implies the knowledge of the Fourier transform of is spacelimited can be computed from samples taken apart

10. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 10 Fourier Slice Theorem: Consequences Assumnig that is bandlimited to then it is possible to restore with a resolution

11. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 11 Backprojection Operator is the sum of all line integrals that crosses the point o

12. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 12 Backprojection Operator is the adjoint operator of when the usual inner product is considered for both the data functions and the objects

13. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 13 Backprojection Operator

14. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 14 Filtered Backprojection Algorithm periodic function of 

15. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 15 Filtered Backprojection Algorithm From the Fourier slice theorem Defining the filtered backprojections as Then

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17. IPIM, IST, José Bioucas, 2007 17 Filtered Backprojection Hann filter Ram-Lak filter

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