Dynamic Tomography Reconstruction by Projection-Domain Separable Modeling

Abstract: In dynamic tomography the object undergoes changes while projections are being acquired sequentially in time. The resulting inconsistent set of projections cannot be used directly to reconstruct an object corresponding to a time instant. Instead, the objective is to reconstruct a spatio-temporal representation of the object, which can be displayed as a movie. We analyze conditions for unique and stable solution of this ill-posed inverse problem, and present a recovery algorithm, validating it experimentally. We compare our approach to one based on the recently proposed GMLR variation on deep prior for video, demonstrating the advantages of the proposed approach.