An Improved ART Algorithm Based on Linear Travel Time Interpolation Ray Tracing[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009, 14(5): 859. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20090513.
An Improved ART Algorithm Based on Linear Travel Time Interpolation Ray Tracing
Straight line reconstruction model is frequently used in concrete computerized tomography. It assumes the ray travels in a straight line between a sending transducer and a receiving transducer
which is valid for homogeneous medium. When there are defects in the medium
the ray will not travel in a straight line but in a spatial curve
and if still using straight line reconstruction model
error will be brought in. An improved algebraic reconstruction technique (ART)is put forward in the paper
and linear travel time interpolation (LTI)ray tracing is used during the iterations to obtain the real travel paths of rays. Firstly
defect meshes are ascertained by probability and mathematical statistic method
and then defect meshes and normal meshes are provided with different initial wave velocities. Secondly
the projection matrix is anew computed by LTI ray tracing before each iteration. And during each iteration
defect meshes and normal meshes are provided with different relaxation factors. The results of computer simulation and concrete model experiment show that the improved ART based on LTI ray tracing is effective to improve the accuracy of computation and the quality of image reconstruction on concrete,but takes more time.