X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) achieves a spatial resolution of micron or submicron and is well-applied in many fields such as biomedicine, materials and electronic packaging. However, it suffers from low contrast and weak material distinguishability because of its low power of the X-ray source comparing with industrial or medical X-ray source. Recently, we adapt a state-of-the-art photon-counting detector (PCD) in a micro-CT system, leading a spectral Micro-CT. By dividing the X-ray photons into different energy bins, the PCD well maintains the energy-dependent property of matter attenuation and then contributes to selective-reconstruction. The selective-reconstruction problems of spectral micro-CT are ill-posed, i.e., the solution is very sensitive to noise. Meanwhile, for each PCD energy channel, the corresponding photon number is only a small fraction of the emitted photons, which further increases the noise level. To overcome the ill-posedness, in this work, we propose a multi-domain constraint based optimization model for one-step selective-reconstruction. First, we measure the data fidelity in photon domain using the Kullback-Leibler distance (Idivergence) and derive an equivalent expression in channel projection domain. Then, we introduce multi-domain constraints to establish the relationship among channel projections, material projections, and material images. After that, we employ the Mumford-Shah (MS) functional to describe the prior knowledge in the material image domain, such as gradient sparsity and edge information. Finally, we develop an iterative algorithm and verify it with numerical simulations.
KEYWORDS: Data storage, 3D image reconstruction, 3D image processing, Reconstruction algorithms, Computed tomography, CT reconstruction, Chromium, Video, Video acceleration, Manganese
In this paper, we express a concept that the complete reconstruction process should include the computation part on GPUs and the data storage part. We propose a multi-thread scheduling (MTS) method to implement the FDK algorithm, to coordinate?? the computing and storage time. In this method we use multi0-threads to control the GPUs and a separate thread to accomplish data storage, so as to cover the calculation and data storage in time process. In addition, we use the four-channel texture to maintain symmetrical projection data in CUDA framework, which can reduce the calculation time significantly.. Numerical experiment shows that the time cost of the whole process with our method is almost the same as the data storage time cost.
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