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Direct Fourier Tomographic Reconstruction Image-To-Image Filter

Zosso, Dominique, Bach Cuadra, Meritxell, Thiran, Jean-Philippe
EPFL Signal Processing Institute
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1926/585
New: Prefer using the following doi: https://doi.org/10.54294/z83ly1
Submitted by Dominique Zosso on 2007-08-24T10:21:19Z.

We present an open-source ITK implementation of a direct Fourier method for tomographic reconstruction, applicable to parallel-beam x-ray images. Direct Fourier reconstruction makes use of the central-slice theorem to build a polar 2D Fourier space from the 1D transformed projections of the scanned object, that is resampled into a Cartesian grid. Inverse 2D Fourier transform eventually yields the reconstructed image. Additionally, we provide a complex wrapper to the BSplineInterpolateImageFunction to overcome ITK’s current lack for image interpolators dealing with complex data types. A sample application is presented and extensively illustrated on the Shepp-Logan head phantom. We show that appropriate input zeropadding and 2D-DFT oversampling rates together with radial cubic b-spline interpolation improve 2D-DFT interpolation quality and are efficient remedies to reduce reconstruction artifacts.