Deblurring subject to nonnegativity constraints when known functions are present with application to object-constrained computerized tomography

IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2001 Oct;20(10):1009-17. doi: 10.1109/42.959298.

Abstract

The reconstruction of tomographic images is often treated as a linear deblurring problem. When a high-density, man-made metal object is present somewhere in the image field, it is a deblurring problem in which the unknown function has a component that is known except for some location and orientation parameters. We first address general linear deblurring problems in which a known function having unknown parameters is present. We then show how the resulting iterative solution can be applied to tomographic imaging in the presence of man-made foreign objects, and we apply the result, in particular, to X-ray computed tomography imaging used in support of brachytherapy treatment of advanced cervical cancer.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Artifacts
  • Brachytherapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / radiotherapy