Computer Tomography

Overview

Very recently I got interested in Computer Tomography and medical imaging systems in general.

To explore the mathematical background I started a Ipython notebook to compute projections of an image (Radon Transform).

The Ipython notebook along with Python modules and test images can be found on GitHub.

https://github.com/michaelbiester/ComputerTomography

A summary of this notebook is available as a PDF document.

The notebook was an early attempt to learn about the reconstruction of an image from its projections. But the notebook presented above only describes how to compute a set of projections. The reconstruction part is missing.

Meanwhile I read some more articles about the reconstruction process. So I have produced some other notebooks and made them available in

https://github.com/michaelbiester/ComputerTomography

I have put some more work into understanding the theory around the image reconstruction process. A PDF version of the notebook can be found on GitHub.

https://github.com/michaelbiester/ComputerTomography/blob/master/radonTransform_theory_1.pdf

And here is a link to the PDF version of a notebook which demonstrates how image reconstruction is possible with filtered backprojections.

https://github.com/michaelbiester/ComputerTomography/blob/master/filtered_projections_ex1.pdf


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