A multiresolution image reconstruction method in X-ray microCT

We propose a method for multiresolution image reconstruction in X-ray micro computed tomography (microCT). It can have a variety of applications, from material characterization to small animal imaging studies. The main idea is to recover an overall image of the sample with a coarse resolution, and with a fine resolution for a region-of-interest (ROI). In a zoomin CT type setup, two sets of data are used, taken at different magnifications ratios. They are combined with the help of an analytical relation and the reconstruction is an extension of the filtered back-projection (FBP) algorithm. We present results with simulated data, some performance aspects and a simple noise analysis.