High-Resolution Limited-Angle Phase Tomography of Dense Layered Objects using Deep Neural Networks

Abstract

We present a machine learning-based method for tomographic reconstruction of dense layered objects, with range of projection angles limited to [plus-minus sign] 10 [degrees]. Whereas previous approaches to phase tomography generally require 2 steps, first to retrieve phase projections from intensity projections and then to perform tomographic reconstruction on the retrieved phase projections, in our work a physics-informed preprocessor followed by a deep neural network (DNN) conduct the 3-dimensional reconstruction directly from the intensity projections. We demonstrate this single-step method experimentally in the visible optical domain on a scaled-up integrated circuit phantom. We show that even under conditions of highly attenuated photon fluxes a DNN trained only on synthetic data can be used to successfully reconstruct physical samples disjoint from the synthetic training set. Thus, the need for producing a large number of physical examples for training is ameliorated. The method is generally applicable to tomography with electromagnetic or other types of radiation at all bands.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 16, 2019
Accession Number
AD1104234

Entities

People

  • Akintunde I. Akinwande
  • Alexandre Goy
  • George Barbastathis
  • Girish Rughoobur
  • Kwabena Arthur
  • Shuai Li

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compressed Sensing
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Deep Learning
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Image Reconstruction
  • Machine Learning
  • Measurement
  • Neural Networks
  • Optical Materials
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Medical Imaging.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks