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New Technique Offers Better Quality X-ray Images With Low Radiation
December 23, 2007 at 3:22 PM
Research News
The researchers took 15 images made with low doses of X-ray radiation, and used a new software to create a high resolution one from them, a process known as "super-resolution".
Efforts of researchers from Duke University Medical Center in Durham and the University of California Santa Cruz, as well as Silicon Valley-based scientists, have given rise to the new approach.
The researchers say that to produce the same quality image would normally mean using a third more radiation than the combined dose of all 15 low-resolution exposures.
So far, they have conducted trials on a dummy breast. Their study showed dramatic improvements in resolution of fine features implanted within the substrate, and produced a clearer picture than could usually be made with the same amount of radiation.
Super resolution involves taking several low-resolution images by shifting a camera slightly each time. The images, which are subtly different, are then automatically aligned by comparing them all, two at a time generally.
The researchers say that it is possible to mathematically reverse the blurring effect and make a higher-resolution image by analysing the way the same features are blurred differently in each low-quality image.
"In practice, most algorithms for alignment are not accurate enough, or are too computationally intensive. That's why they have not yet widely been used in digital cameras," says Sina Farsiu, a member of the team at
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