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A.C.KakandMalcolmSlaney,
PrinciplesofComputerizedTomographicImaging,
IEEEPress,
1988.

Thisbookdiscussesbasicmathematicalprinciplesofcomputedtomographyandthe
mathematicalalgorithmsusedtodevelopimages.Whilechapters2and3gooverbasic
mathandtheory,themajorityofthecontentregardingimaginginthemedicalindustryis
discussedinlaterchapters,suchaspolychromaticityofartifactsandscatterofxray
beams.Italsoshowsthattheonlythingthatisrequiredforimaginginthefanbeam
configurationisthatthesourceanddetectorsrotatewithrespecttotheobject.Ifthe
objectistoturnonitsaxis,theresultwouldbethesame.Iwillusethisasbackgroundon
theworkingsofCTimaging.

M.Thomsen,M.Strobl,K.Lefmann,NeutronImaging,in
NeutronScattering:
Theory,InstrumentationandSimulation
Copenhagen,Denmark:Univ.ofCopenhagen,2014,ch.
8,pp.135151.

Thischapterdiscussesradiographyprinciplesusingthepinholemodelforanxray
source.Itdiscusseshowtocaptureimagesusingascintillatorplatetypicallymadefrom
6LiF/ZnS:AgandhowtoreconstructamodelusingtheFilteredBackProjection(FBP)
algorithm.Itdescribesalltheequationsandmathematicalsteps,basedontheFourier
SliceTheorem,necessarytoreconstructa3Dmodelfrom2Dimageslices.Iwillusethis
asabasisfordeterminingequationsandalgorithmsusedforreconstruction.

M.Thomsen,M.Poulsen,M.Bech,A.Velroyen,J.Herzen,F.Beckmann,R.Feidenhans'l,and
F.Pfeiffer,Visualizationofsubcutaneousinsulininjectionsbyxraycomputed

tomography,
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Thisarticlediscusses,usingastationaryxraysourceanddetector,howtheycaptured
andconstructedamodelofaninjectioninporcinetissue.Whileitisapublishedarticle,it
takestheformofanexperimentalreportmorethananything.Theystartedbyusinga
modifiedversionoftheChanVesealgorithmtosegmentthesubjectinorderto
reconstructamodel.Theyalsomentionthatbycapturingthesamplequickly,theyensure
thatminimaldiffusionthroughtheporcinetissuehasoccurred.Besidesthis,therestof
thearticlediscussesspecificitiesoftheexperimentstheyconducted.Thiswilllikelybea
fundamentalarticleindeterminingwhatstepsandmaterialsarenecessarytocapturean
injection.

N.Zhang,J.Zhang,andR.Shi,AnImprovedChanVeseModelforMedicalImage
Segmentation,
2008InternationalConferenceonComputerScienceandSoftware
Engineering
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ThisarticlefromanIEEEconferencediscussesimprovementsontheChanVese
algorithmforsubjectsegmentation,whichisoftenusedinCTimaging.Theyadjusttheir
mathematicalalgorithmstoincludegradientsoftheimageswhichallowsinterior
contours,suchasdifferencesinmaterials,tobedetectedusingCT.Bynotsolely
recoveringexteriorcontoursfromthestandardChanVeseimplementation,theresults
renderaclearerandmorepreciseimageformodelingandmanipulation.Thesefindings
mayplayapartinmymethodsforextractingcontoursshouldtheynotbeconsideredin
otherimplementations.

Radontransform,
Radontransformskimagev0.12devdocs
.[Online].Availableat:
http://scikitimage.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/transform/plot_radon_transform.html.
[Accessed:14Feb2016].


Thiswebsitepageservesasdocumentationforfunctionalityaspartofanopensource
imageprocessingsuitecalledscikitimage.Inthisspecificdocumentationpage,they
discusshowtoapplytheRadontransform,usedinCTimaging,andhowtoapplyan
inversetransforminordertoreconstructbywayofFilteredBackProjection(FBP)or
SimultaneousAlgebraicReconstructionTechnique(SART).Theformerinverse
transformisquick,butthelatterismoreaccurateandcanberunmultipletimesfor
increasingspecificityatloweringdegreesofNruns.Thisisthecheapestsoftwareoption
available,butmayhaveissuesintermsofmakingthemodelaccurateduetoits
opensourcestatus.

E.B.Knudsen,A.Prodi,J.Baltser,M.Thomsen,P.K.Willendrup,M.S.D.Rio,C.Ferrero,E.
Farhi,K.Haldrup,A.Vickery,R.Feidenhans'l,K.Mortensen,M.M.Nielsen,H.F.
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M.Thomsen,Subcutaneousinjections:Visualisingandoptimisingdevicetissueinteractions,
Ph.D.thesis,PhDSchoolofScience,Univ.ofCopenhagen,Copenhagen,Denmark,
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Quicknoteonproposal:Iwillbefocusingmycriterionfordeterminingthebeststepson:
1. Costofmaterials/software
2. Accuracyofmodelcreation
3. Complexityofsolution
4. Timetosetup
5. Timetocapture