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We study how the quality of an image reconstructed by a binary tomographic algorithm depends on the direction of the observed object in the scanner, if only a few projections are available. To do so we conduct experiments on a set of software phantoms by reconstructing them form different projection sets using an algorithm based on D.C. programming (a method for minimizing the difference of convex functions), and compare the accuracy of the corresponding reconstructions by two suitable approaches. Based on the experiments, we discuss consequences on applications arising from the field of non-destructive testing, as well.
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Varga, L., Balázs, P., Nagy, A. (2010). Direction-Dependency of a Binary Tomographic Reconstruction Algorithm. In: Barneva, R.P., Brimkov, V.E., Hauptman, H.A., Natal Jorge, R.M., Tavares, J.M.R.S. (eds) Computational Modeling of Objects Represented in Images. CompIMAGE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6026. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12712-0_22
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