Affiliations:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Yi Sun, Department of Electronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, 116024, China. E-mail: lslwf@dlut.edu.cn.
Abstract: Sparse-view Computed Tomography (CT) has important significance in industrial inspection and medical diagnosis. Mojette transform is a kind of discrete Radon transform that can yield exact reconstructions instead of an approximate solution due to finite Radon sampling. However, the image is iteratively reconstructed pixel by pixel from corner to center, and the image error is proportional to the number of iterations. In this paper, we propose that there exist different sets of projection combinations to recover the original image within the close-to-minimal iterations. And a scheme is given to obtain multiple projection sets, each of which has the same number of minimum iterations and can recover a CT image with a similar level of small noise but different distributions. These images can be used further to restore the final CT image by counteracting noise with each other. The accuracy and validity of the proposed algorithm are verified by comparison with both other Mojette inversion algorithms and the classical SART algorithm.
Keywords: Radon transform, Mojette transform, close-to-minimal iterations, counteracting-noise, different sets of projection combinations
