中国物理B ›› 2013, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (7): 78701-078701.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/22/7/078701

• INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • 上一篇    下一篇

Image reconstruction based on total-variation minimization and alternating direction method in linear scan computed tomography

张瀚铭, 王林元, 闫镔, 李磊, 席晓琦, 陆利忠   

  1. National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center, Zhengzhou 450002, China
  • 收稿日期:2012-09-06 修回日期:2012-12-17 出版日期:2013-06-01 发布日期:2013-06-01
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012AA011603).

Image reconstruction based on total-variation minimization and alternating direction method in linear scan computed tomography

Zhang Han-Ming (张瀚铭), Wang Lin-Yuan (王林元), Yan Bin (闫镔), Li Lei (李磊), Xi Xiao-Qi (席晓琦), Lu Li-Zhong (陆利忠)   

  1. National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Research Center, Zhengzhou 450002, China
  • Received:2012-09-06 Revised:2012-12-17 Online:2013-06-01 Published:2013-06-01
  • Contact: Yan Bin E-mail:ybspace@yahoo.com.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012AA011603).

摘要: Linear scan computed tomography (LCT) is of great benefit to online industrial scanning and security inspection due to its characteristics of straight-line source trajectory and high scanning speed. However, in practical applications of LCT, there are challenges to image reconstruction due to limited-angle and insufficient data. In this paper, a new reconstruction algorithm based on total-variation (TV) minimization is developed to reconstruct images from limited-angle and insufficient data in LCT. The main idea of our approach is to reformulate a TV problem as a linear equality constrained problem where the objective function is separable, and then minimize its augmented Lagrangian function by using alternating direction method (ADM) to solve subproblems. The proposed method is robust and efficient in the task of reconstruction by showing the convergence of ADM. The numerical simulations and real data reconstructions show that the proposed reconstruction method brings reasonable performance and outperforms some previous ones when applied to an LCT imaging problem.

关键词: linear scan CT, image reconstruction, total variation, alternating direction method

Abstract: Linear scan computed tomography (LCT) is of great benefit to online industrial scanning and security inspection due to its characteristics of straight-line source trajectory and high scanning speed. However, in practical applications of LCT, there are challenges to image reconstruction due to limited-angle and insufficient data. In this paper, a new reconstruction algorithm based on total-variation (TV) minimization is developed to reconstruct images from limited-angle and insufficient data in LCT. The main idea of our approach is to reformulate a TV problem as a linear equality constrained problem where the objective function is separable, and then minimize its augmented Lagrangian function by using alternating direction method (ADM) to solve subproblems. The proposed method is robust and efficient in the task of reconstruction by showing the convergence of ADM. The numerical simulations and real data reconstructions show that the proposed reconstruction method brings reasonable performance and outperforms some previous ones when applied to an LCT imaging problem.

Key words: linear scan CT, image reconstruction, total variation, alternating direction method

中图分类号:  (X-ray imaging)

  • 87.59.-e
07.85.-m (X- and γ-ray instruments) 87.57.Q- (Computed tomography)