VOIR: a volumetric image reconstruction algorithm based on Fourier techniques for inversion of the 3-D Radon transform
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Vol. 5 (1) , 121-131
- https://doi.org/10.1109/83.481676
Abstract
A novel volumetric image reconstruction algorithm known as VOIR is presented for inversion of the 3-D Radon transform or its radial derivative. The algorithm is a direct implementation of the projection slice theorem for plane integrals. It generalizes one of the most successful methods in 2-D Fourier image reconstruction involving concentric-square rasters to 3-D; in VOIR, the spectral data, which is calculated by fast Fourier techniques, lie on concentric cubes and are interpolated by a bilinear method on the sides of these concentric cubes. The algorithm has great computational advantages over filtered-backprojection algorithms; for images of side dimension N, the numerical complexity of VOIR is O(N(3) log N) instead of O(N (4)) for backprojection techniques. An evaluation of the image processing performance is reported by comparison of reconstructed images from simulated cone-beam scans of a contrast and resolution test object. The image processing performance is also characterized by an analysis of the edge response from the reconstructed images.Keywords
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