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Image Reconstruction Techniques for Radioactive Waste Assay by Tomographic Gamma Scanning Method

  • Zhang Quanhu;Kim Ki-Hong;Hong Kwon-Pyo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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    • 2005.11b
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    • pp.126-140
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    • 2005
  • The tomographic gamma scanner (TGS) method, a further of extension of segmented gamma scanner (SGS), is most accurate and precise for assaying heterogeneous drummed nuclear radioactive waste; it is widely used in nuclear power plants and radioactive waste storages and disposal sites. The transmission and emission images are reconstructed by image reconstruction techniques. In the paper, the principle of TGS is introduced; image reconstruction techniques are discussed as well; finally, it is demonstrated that TGS method performance.

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3-D Image Reconstruction Techniques for Plant and Animal Morphological Analysis - A Review

  • Rahman, Anisur;Mo, Changyeun;Cho, Byoung-Kwan
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.339-349
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: This review focuses on the major 3-D image reconstruction techniques and their applications in plant and animal morphological analysis. Methods & Results: This paper begins with an overview of major 3-D image reconstruction techniques and their basic principles. Subsequently, their applications in plant and animal morphological analysis are reviewed. A discussion on the limitations and future research direction of 3-D imaging techniques for accurate, fast measurements and modeling of plant and animal morphological analysis follows. Conclusions: Owing to the increasing demand for plant and animal morphological analysis, the application of 3-D imaging techniques will increase in popularity among researchers and the agricultural industry.

Simulation Study for Feature Identification of Dynamic Medical Image Reconstruction Technique Based on Singular Value Decomposition (특이값분해 기반 동적의료영상 재구성기법의 특징 파악을 위한 시뮬레이션 연구)

  • Kim, Do-Hui;Jung, YoungJin
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.119-130
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    • 2019
  • Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used imaging modality for effective and accurate functional testing and medical diagnosis using radioactive isotopes. However, PET has difficulties in acquiring images with high image quality due to constraints such as the amount of radioactive isotopes injected into the patient, the detection time, the characteristics of the detector, and the patient's motion. In order to overcome this problem, we have succeeded to improve the image quality by using the dynamic image reconstruction method based on singular value decomposition. However, there is still some question about the characteristics of the proposed technique. In this study, the characteristics of reconstruction method based on singular value decomposition was estimated over computational simulation. As a result, we confirmed that the singular value decomposition based reconstruction technique distinguishes the images well when the signal - to - noise ratio of the input image is more than 20 decibels and the feature vector angle is more than 60 degrees. In addition, the proposed methode to estimate the characteristics of reconstruction technique can be applied to other spatio-temporal feature based dynamic image reconstruction techniques. The deduced conclusion of this study can be useful guideline to apply medical image into SVD based dynamic image reconstruction technique to improve the accuracy of medical diagnosis.

Research on Reconstruction Technology of Biofilm Surface Based on Image Stacking

  • Zhao, Yuyang;Tao, Xueheng;Lee, Eung-Joo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.1472-1480
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    • 2021
  • Image stacking technique is one of the key techniques for complex surface reconstruction. The process includes sample collection, image processing, algorithm editing, surface reconstruction, and finally reaching reliable conclusions. Since this experiment is based on laser scanning confocal microscope to collect the original contour information of the sample, it is necessary to briefly introduce the relevant principle and operation method of laser scanning confocal microscope. After that, the original image is collected and processed, and the data is expanded by interpolation method. Meanwhile, several methods of surface reconstruction are listed. After comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each method, one-dimensional interpolation and volume rendering are finally used to reconstruct the 3D model. The experimental results show that the final 3d surface modeling is more consistent with the appearance information of the original samples. At the same time, the algorithm is simple and easy to understand, strong operability, and can meet the requirements of surface reconstruction of different types of samples.

Speed Optimization Design of 3D Medical Image Reconstruction System Based on PC (PC 기반의 3차원 의료영상 재구성 시스템의 고속화 설계)

  • Bae, Su-Hyeon;Kim, Seon-Ho;Yu, Seon-Guk
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.189-198
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    • 1998
  • 3D medical image reconstruction techniques are useful to figure out complex 3D structures from the set of 2D sections. In the paper, 3D medical image reconstruction system is constructed under PC environment and programmed based on modular programming by using Visual C++ 4.2. The whole procedures are composed of data preparation, gradient estimation, classification, shading, transformation and ray-casting & compositing. Three speed optimization techniques are used for accelerating 3D medical image reconstruction technique. One is to reduce the rays when cast rays to reconstruct 3D medical image, another is to reduce the voxels to be calculated and the other is to apply early ray termination. To implement 3D medical image reconstruction system based on PC, speed optimization techniques are experimented and applied.

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CT Image Reconstruction of Wood Using Ultrasound Velocities II - Determination of the Initial Model Function of the SIRT Method -

  • Kim, Kwang-Mo;Lee, Jun-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.33 no.5 s.133
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2005
  • A previous study verified that the SIRT (simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique) method is more efficient than the back-projection method as a CT algorithm for wood. However, it was expected that the determination of the initial model function of the SIRT method would influence the quality of CT image. Therefore, in this study, we intended to develop a technique that could be used to determine an adequate initial model function. For this purpose, we proposed several techniques, and for each technique we examined the effects of the initial model function on the average errors and the CT image at each iteration. Through this study, it was shown that the average error was decreased and the image quality was improved using the proposed techniques. This tendency was most pronounced when the back-projection method was used to determine the initial model function. From the results of this study, we drew the following conclusions: 1) The initial model function of the SIRT method should be determined with careful attention, and 2) the back-projection method efficiently determines the initial model function of the SIRT method.

Fast Real-Time Cardiac MRI: a Review of Current Techniques and Future Directions

  • Wang, Xiaoqing;Uecker, Martin;Feng, Li
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.252-265
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    • 2021
  • Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) serves as a clinical gold-standard non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of global and regional cardiac function. Conventional cardiac MRI is limited by the long acquisition time, the need for ECG gating and/or long breathhold, and insufficient spatiotemporal resolution. Real-time cardiac cine MRI refers to high spatiotemporal cardiac imaging using data acquired continuously without synchronization or binning, and therefore of potential interest in overcoming the limitations of conventional cardiac MRI. Novel acquisition and reconstruction techniques must be employed to facilitate real-time cardiac MRI. The goal of this study is to discuss methods that have been developed for real-time cardiac MRI. In particular, we classified existing techniques into two categories based on the use of non-iterative and iterative reconstruction. In addition, we present several research trends in this direction, including deep learning-based image reconstruction and other advanced real-time cardiac MRI strategies that reconstruct images acquired from real-time free-breathing techniques.

Content Based Mesh Motion Estimation in Moving Pictures (동영상에서의 내용기반 메쉬를 이용한 모션 예측)

  • 김형진;이동규;이두수
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.06d
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    • pp.35-38
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    • 2000
  • The method of Content-based Triangular Mesh Image representation in moving pictures makes better performance in prediction error ratio and visual efficiency than that of classical block matching. Specially if background and objects can be separated from image, the objects are designed by Irregular mesh. In this case this irregular mesh design has an advantage of increasing video coding efficiency. This paper presents the techniques of mesh generation, motion estimation using these mesh, uses image warping transform such as Affine transform for image reconstruction, and evaluates the content based mesh design through computer simulation.

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A Study on Speed Improvement of Medical Image Reconstruction (의료영상 재구성의 속도개선에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu, Jong-Hyun;Beack, Seung-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1998.07g
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    • pp.2489-2491
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    • 1998
  • The study of 3D image reconstruction re has developed along the progress of computer. Therfore Great deal of research on it have been done. 3D medical image reconstruction techniques are useful to figure out human's complex 3D structures from the set of 2D section. But 3D medical image reconstruction require a lot of calculation, it takes long time and expensive system. That gives a reason to the improvement of study on speed. In this paper. applying the interpolation to only the part which can appear as cube, I come up with a method that calculates the speed by reducing the a mount of calculation.

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A Study on the Usefulness of Deep Learning Image Reconstruction with Radiation Dose Variation in MDCT (MDCT에서 선량 변화에 따른 딥러닝 재구성 기법의 유용성 연구)

  • Ga-Hyun, Kim;Ji-Soo, Kim;Chan-Deul, Kim;Joon-Pyo, Lee;Joo-Wan, Hong;Dong-Kyoon, Han
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2023
  • This study aims to evaluate the usefulness of Deep Learning Image Reconstruction (TrueFidelity, TF), the image quality of existing Filtered Back Projection (FBP) and Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction-Veo (ASIR-V) were compared. Noise, CNR, and SSIM were measured by obtaining images with doses fixed at 17.29 mGy and altered to 10.37 mGy, 12.10 mGy, 13.83 mGy, and 15.56 mGy in reconstruction techniques of FBP, ASIR-V 50%, and TF-H. TF-H has superior image quality compared to FBP and ASIR-V when the reconstruction technique change is given at 17.29 mGy. When dose changes were made, Noise, CNR, and SSIM were significantly different when comparing 10.37 mGy TF-H and FBP (p<0.05), and no significant difference when comparing 10.37 mGy TF-H and ASIR-V 50% (p>0.05). TF-H has a dose-reduction effect of 30%, as the highest dose of 15.56 mGy ASIR-V has the same image quality as the lowest dose of 10.37 mGy TF-H. Thus, Deep Learning Reconstruction techniques (TF) were able to reduce dose compared to Iterative Reconstruction techniques (ASIR-V) and Filtered Back Projection (FBP). Therefore, it is considered to reduce the exposure dose of patients.