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APPLIED AND COMPUTATIONAL HARMONIC ANALYSIS
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 117-141Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.acha.2012.03.005
Keywords
Radon transform; Limited angle tomography; Curvelets; Sparse regularization; Dimensionality reduction
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- DFG [FI 883/3/3-1]
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We investigate the reconstruction problem of limited angle tomography. Such problems arise naturally in applications like digital breast tomosynthesis, dental tomography, electron microscopy. etc. Since the acquired tomographic data is highly incomplete, the reconstruction problem is severely ill-posed and the traditional reconstruction methods, e.g. filtered backprojection (FBP), do not perform well in such situations. To stabilize the reconstruction procedure additional prior knowledge about the unknown object has to be integrated into the reconstruction process. In this work, we propose the use of the sparse regularization technique in combination with curvelets. We argue that this technique gives rise to an edge-preserving reconstruction. Moreover, we show that the dimension of the problem can be significantly reduced in the curvelet domain. To this end, we give a characterization of the kernel of the limited angle Radon transform in terms of curvelets and derive a characterization of solutions obtained through curvelet sparse regularization. In numerical experiments, we will show that the theoretical results directly translate into practice and that the proposed method outperforms classical reconstructions. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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