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  • Medical Imaging
  • Computational Imaging
  • Image Reconstruction

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  • Sparse-view CT imaging reduces radiation dose but causes artifacts due to undersampling.
  • Diffusion posterior sampling (DPS) methods improve quality but add computational cost and spurious details.

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  • To develop a high-fidelity, low-dose CT imaging method using sparse projections.
  • To suppress hallucinated details and reduce computational burden in CT reconstruction.

Main Methods:

  • A novel diffusion-based method synergizing null-space restoration with Filtered Back-Projection (FBP) pseudoinverse approximation.
  • Utilizing range-null space decomposition and optimizing inverse diffusion trajectory for sparse data recovery.
  • Theoretical analysis of the FBP approximation's rationality.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method achieved significant improvements in image quality and computational efficiency.
  • Average PSNR gain of 5.32 dB and SSIM increase of 0.083 compared to DPS.
  • 41.9% reduction in computation time compared to DPS.

Conclusions:

  • This framework offers a practical and effective solution for high-quality, low-dose CT imaging.
  • The method balances reconstruction accuracy and computational efficiency for practical applications.