Sparse view cone beam X-ray luminescence tomography based on truncated singular value decomposition.

Cone beam X-ray luminescence computed tomography (CB-XLCT) has been proposed as a promising hybrid imaging technique. Though it has the advantage of fast imaging, the inverse problem of CB-XLCT is seriously ill-conditioned, making the image quality quite poor, especially for imaging multi-targets. To achieve fast imaging of multi-targets, which is essential for in vivo applications, a truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) based sparse view CB-XLCT reconstruction method is proposed in this study. With the weight matrix of the CB-XLCT system being converted to orthogonal by TSVD, the compressed sensing (CS) based L1-norm method could be applied for fast reconstruction from fewer projection views. Numerical simulations and phantom experiments demonstrate that by using the proposed method, two targets with different edge-to-edge distances (EEDs) could be resolved effectively. It indicates that the proposed method could improve the imaging quality of multi-targets significantly in terms of localization accuracy, target shape, image contrast, and spatial resolution, when compared with conventional methods.

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