Efficient implementation of a local tomography reconstruction algorithm

Abstract

We propose an efficient implementation of an interior tomography reconstruction method based on a known subregion. This method iteratively refines a reconstruction, aiming at reducing the local tomography artifacts. To cope with the ever increasing data volumes, this method is highly optimized on two aspects: firstly, the problem is reformulated to reduce the number of variables, and secondly, the operators involved in the optimization algorithms are efficiently implemented. Results show that \(4096^2\) slices can be processed in tens of seconds, while being beyond the reach of equivalent exact local tomography method.