RANSAC ART Tomography

Abstract

This paper describes using of per-voxel RANSAC approach in ART tomography. The method works as an addition to any ART and does not depend on its internal details. Firstly, the histograms of voxel map corrections are constructed in each voxel during usual pass of ART. Then, they are used to refine the absorption map. It allows to improve resulting voxel absorption map, reducing ghost effects caused by input data errors and inconsistency. This method was demonstrated with optical tomography algorithm as it has certain difficulties with input data. The proposed algorithm was implemented to run on GPU.