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Philippe Thévenaz

Publications and source records attributed to Philippe Thévenaz.

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arXiv2026

Geometry Calibration in Tomography with a Differentiable Ray-Based Model

Geometric misalignments between the nominal and true acquisition parameters in tomography degrade reconstructions. We propose a framework that jointly reconstructs the volume and calibrates the acquisition geometry for arbitrary source--detector configurations. The core of our framework is an x-ray transform operator whose gradients with respect to the acquisition geometry can be efficiently computed with a ray-tracing method of structure and computational complexity similar to those of the forward operator. We represent the volume in a B-spline basis to provide a continuously differentiable model. This results in a better-behaved optimization landscape compared to voxel-based representations. We validate our framework with CT, micro-CT, nano-CT, and positron emission tomography data under a variety of geometric misalignments.

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arXiv2025

SplineSplat: 3D Ray Tracing for Higher-Quality Tomography

We propose a method to efficiently compute tomographic projections of a 3D volume represented by a linear combination of shifted B-splines. To do so, we propose a ray-tracing algorithm that computes 3D line integrals with arbitrary projection geometries. One of the components of our algorithm is a neural network that computes the contribution of the basis functions efficiently. In our experiments, we consider well-posed cases where the data are sufficient for accurate reconstruction without the need for regularization. We achieve higher reconstruction quality than traditional voxel-based methods.

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arXiv2025

Generalized Ray Tracing with Basis functions for Tomographic Projections

This work aims at the precise and efficient computation of the x-ray projection of an image represented by a linear combination of general shifted basis functions that typically overlap. We achieve this with a suitable adaptation of ray tracing, which is one of the most efficient methods to compute line integrals. In our work, the cases in which the image is expressed as a spline are of particular relevance. The proposed implementation is applicable to any projection geometry as it computes the forward and backward operators over a collection of arbitrary lines. We validate our work with experiments in the context of inverse problems for image reconstruction and maximize the image quality for a given resolution of the reconstruction grid.

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