Abstract

Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is a preclinical optical tomographic imaging technique that can trace various physiological and pathological processes at the cellular or even molecular level. Reducing the number of FMT projection views can improve the data acquisition speed, which is significant in applications such as dynamic problems. However, a reduction in the number of projection views will dramatically aggravate the ill-posedness of the FMT inverse problem and lead to significant degradation of the reconstructed images. To deal with this problem, we have proposed a deep-learning-based reconstruction method for sparse-view FMT that only uses four perpendicular projection views and divides the image reconstruction into two stages: image restoration and inverse Radon transform. In the first stage, the projection views of the surface fluorescence are restored to eliminate the blur derived from photon diffusion through a fully convolutional neural network. In the second stage, another convolutional neural network is used to implement the inverse Radon transform between the restored projections from the first stage and the reconstructed transverse slices. Numerical simulation and phantom and mouse experiments are carried out. The results show that the proposed method can effectively deal with the image reconstruction problem of sparse-view FMT.

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