Discrete Tomography in MRI: a Simulation Study

Discrete tomography (DT) is concerned with the tomographic reconstruction of images that consist of only a small number of grey levels. Recently, DART, a practical algorithm was introduced for discrete tomography, which was validated in the domain of X-ray computed and electron tomography. In this paper, DART is introduced for magnetic resonance imaging. Using simulation experiments, it is shown that the proposed MRI-DART algorithm is capable of computing high quality reconstructions from substantially fewer data compared to state-of-the-art MRI reconstruction methods. ∗This work was financially supported by the iMinds-SuperMRI project (Interdisciplinary Institute for Technology, a research institute founded by the Flemish Government) and by the TOP BOF project Quantitative Tomographic Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images. †Address for correspondence: iMinds – Vision Lab, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1 (N.115), B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium 224 H. Segers et al. / Discrete Tomography in MRI