A CT Reconstruction Algorithm Based on L1/2 Regularization. (16th April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Mianyi; Mi, Deling; He, Peng; Deng, Luzhen; Wei, Biao
• Other Names: Feng Peng Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Computational and mathematical methods in medicine. Volume 2014(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-04-16
• Subjects: Medicine -- Computer simulation -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Mathematical models -- Periodicals; 610.11
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/862910
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1748-670X

Abstract

Abstract : Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction with low radiation dose is a significant research point in current medical CT field. Compressed sensing has shown great potential reconstruct high-quality CT images from few-view or sparse-view data. In this paper, we use the sparser L1/2 regularization operator to replace the traditional L1 regularization and combine the Split Bregman method to reconstruct CT images, which has good unbiasedness and can accelerate iterative convergence. In the reconstruction experiments with simulation and real projection data, we analyze the quality of reconstructed images using different reconstruction methods in different projection angles and iteration numbers. Compared with algebraic reconstruction technique (ART) and total variance (TV) based approaches, the proposed reconstruction algorithm can not only get better images with higher quality from few-view data but also need less iteration numbers.