Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, Volume. 41, Issue 5, 738(2024)

A method to solve lack of paired data in neutron computed tomography for deep learning by using photon images

GUO Hu1...2, CHEN Shuai2,*, YANG Minghan2, ZHANG Ziheng2,3, SHAO Hui4 and WANG Jianye2 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
  • 2Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Hefei 230031, China
  • 3University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 4Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230022, China
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    Due to the lack of high-quality paired datasets, the application and development of deep learning in neutron computed tomography (CT) reconstruction are severely hindered. Although the imaging principles of neutron CT and photon CT are both based on the Radon transform, the imaging characteristics of the two processes during particle transport are different, so the network trained for photon CT cannot be directly used to solve the reconstruction problem of neutron CT. Therefore, in this work, an unsupervised domain adaptive network is proposed that can solve the probability distribution difference problem in the migration process from photon tomography to neutron tomography.In the proposed method, the maximum mean difference is introduced to reduce the distribution difference between photon and neutron tomography image features, and furthermore, wavelet transform and convolution neural network are combined to enhance the effective features of reconstruction. The comparison experiments with other algorithms show that the proposed method can reconstruct high-quality neutron tomography images from low-flux neutron tomography results, effectively alleviating the degradation of low-flux neutron tomography.

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    Hu GUO, Shuai CHEN, Minghan YANG, Ziheng ZHANG, Hui SHAO, Jianye WANG. A method to solve lack of paired data in neutron computed tomography for deep learning by using photon images[J]. Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2024, 41(5): 738

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    Received: Nov. 22, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jan. 8, 2025

    The Author Email: CHEN Shuai (shuai.chen@inest.cas.cn)

    DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461.2024.05.004

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