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The document proposes a new localized computerized tomography technique based on the discrete wavelet transform. It shows that using a multiresolution analysis implementation of the discrete wavelet transform, it is possible to reconstruct a high-quality image of the region of interest using only a sparse set of projection data outside the region of interest.

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Wavelet Transform 2

The document proposes a new localized computerized tomography technique based on the discrete wavelet transform. It shows that using a multiresolution analysis implementation of the discrete wavelet transform, it is possible to reconstruct a high-quality image of the region of interest using only a sparse set of projection data outside the region of interest.

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CIRCUITS SYSTEMS SIGNAL PROCESS

VOL. 19, NO. 5, 2000, PP. 3 9 9 - 4 0 9

ENHANCED LOCALIZED
COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
EMPLOYING THE DISCRETE
WAVELET TRANSFORM*
B r i a n J. Smith I a n d R e z a R. A d h a m i 2

Abstract. A new localized computerized tomography technique based on the multireso-


iution analysis (MRA) implementation of the discrete wavelet transform is proposed. Our
technique is based upon viewing the projection data as a set of one-dimensional functions
of the space variable t and decomposing each one into an approximation signal and a
set of detail signals using MRA. The approximation signal and detail signals associated
with each projection are filtered using the ramp filter Icol of the standard reconstruction
technique filtered back projection to generate the set of filtered projections. It is shown that
only a very sparse set of projection data outside of the region of interest (ROI) is required
to reconstruct a high-quality image of the ROI and a reasonable image outside of the ROI.
Simulation results using the Shepp-Logan head phantom are presented to demonstrate the
proposed technique.
Key words: Computed tomography, Radon transform, discrete wavelet transform, mul-
tiresolution analysis, localized tomography.

1. I n t r o d u c t i o n

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) in 1972 revolutionized medical


imaging [7]. The Nobel prize awarded to Hounsfield and Cormack for their work
on the initial CT device signifies the importance of CT. A fundamental limita-
tion of standard CT techniques is that the image reconstruction process requires
a complete set of projection data even when only a small portion of the body
is being tested. The image reconstruction process is termed a global operation
because to reconstruct the image at a single point (xi, y j) requires a complete set
of projection data P(t, 0). The global nature of standard CT is undesirable in the

* Received December 15, 1999; revised May 31, 2000.


I AMSAM-RD-SS-AA,Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898, USA.
E-mail: [Link]@[Link]
2 The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA. E-mail: radhami@[Link]

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