High-order total variation minimization for interior tomography

Abstract

Recently, an accurate solution to the interior problem was proposed based on the total variation (TV) minimization, assuming that a region of interest (ROI) is piecewise constant. In this paper, we generalize that assumption to allow a piecewise polynomial ROI, introduce the high order TV (HOT), and prove that an ROI can be accurately reconstructed from projection data associated with x-rays through the ROI through the HOT minimization if the ROI is piecewise polynomial. Then, we verify our theoretical results in numerical simulation.