title: Image restoration in chirp-pulse microwave CT (CP-MCT).
abstract: Chirp-pulse microwave computed tomography (CP-MCT) is a technique for imaging the distribution of temperature variations inside biological tissues. Even if resolution and contrast are adequate to this purpose, a further improvement of image quality is desirable. In this paper, we discuss the blur of CP-MCT images and we propose a method for estimating the corresponding point spread function (PSF). To this purpose we use both a measured and a computed projection of a cylindrical phantom. We find a good agreement between the two cases. Finally the estimated PSF is used for deconvolving data corresponding to various kinds of cylindrical phantoms. We use an iterative nonlinear deconvolution method which assures nonnegative solutions and we demonstrate the improvement of image quality which can be obtained in such a way.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertero
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyakawa
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boccacci
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Conte
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Orikasa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Furutani
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001831:Body Temperature; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008872:Microwaves; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*