It is a beautiful little machine, looking forward to seeing it in action.
A simpler approach to get a small CT scanner is to use a stationary source and detector. This requires a cone-beam source, which might cost a lot more, but it makes it a lot easier to experiment with phase-contrast and darkfield imaging, which can improve soft-tissue contrast.
For reconstruction from the projections the Cph CT Toolbox
https://code.google.com/p/cphcttoolbox/
contains open source implementations of several reconstruction algorithms. It is written in python.
From my viewpoint, CS student focusing on medical imaging, no single imaging modality will rule them all. It is much more interesting to look at the combinations like PET/CT and PET/MR that gives us complimentary information.
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It is a beautiful little machine, looking forward to seeing it in action.
A simpler approach to get a small CT scanner is to use a stationary source and detector. This requires a cone-beam source, which might cost a lot more, but it makes it a lot easier to experiment with phase-contrast and darkfield imaging, which can improve soft-tissue contrast.
For reconstruction from the projections the Cph CT Toolbox https://code.google.com/p/cphcttoolbox/ contains open source implementations of several reconstruction algorithms. It is written in python.
From my viewpoint, CS student focusing on medical imaging, no single imaging modality will rule them all. It is much more interesting to look at the combinations like PET/CT and PET/MR that gives us complimentary information.
(from following link...) Ah, an old CRT screen as a detector - hadn't thought of that.