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Image Rendering Techniques in Postmortem Computed Tomography: Evaluation of Biological Health and Profile in Stranded Cetaceans
Published on: September 27, 2020
Image restoration in computed tomography: restoration of experimental CT images
S Rathee1, Z J Koles, T R Overton
1Dept. of Appl. Sci. in Med., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta.
Abstract:
It is pointed out that to restore experimental computed tomography (CT) images which have been blurred by a spatially variant point spread function (PSF), a quadrant symmetry method which simultaneously optimizes storage requirements for the estimated PSFs and computational speed is used. The quadrant symmetry approach required less than 0.579 Megawords of storage for 9x9 pixel spatially variant PSFs in a 256x256 pixel image, allowing image restoration in Cartesian coordinates. A locally adaptive restoration method formulated using a noise prewhitening filter derived from the measured noise power spectrum, the conjugate gradient method was used to obtain a numerical solution. Restored images for a resolution phantom and for a cadaver femur are presented.
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