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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2014
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
David Jones Brady, Durham, NC (US);
Lawrence L. Carin, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Yan Kaganovsky, Durham, NC (US);
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A method and system for forming tomographic images of an object using discrete, non-continuous illumination rays is disclosed. In some embodiments, coded apertures, collimation filters, or reference structures are used to filter the set of illumination rays from a two- or three-dimensional radiation signal, wherein the set of illumination rays are then used to interrogate the object. In some embodiments, the object is interrogated with a set of illumination rays that is continuous and a sparse array of detectors is used to sub-sample the illumination rays after they have passed through the object.