System and methods for tomography image reconstruction

Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications

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ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a tomographic reconstruction algorithm, which is highly effective improving image quality and accuracy by reducing or eliminating artifacts within images produced by limited data tomography. Using algebraic reconstruction techniques (ART), depending on whether or not an object has higher or lower densities, a current threshold value is set to either a high or low threshold parameter and then decreased or increased, respectively, to reduce or eliminate the artifacts in a reconstructed image.

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