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One of the main concerns regarding medical imaging is the danger tissue's ionizing due to the applied radiation. Many medical procedures are based on this ionizing radiation (such as X-rays and Gamma radiation). This radiation allows the physician to perform diagnosis inside the human body. Still, the main concern is stochastic effects to the DNA, particularly the cause of cancer. The radiation dose endangers not only the patient but also the medical staff, who might be close to the patient and be exposed to this dangerous radiation in a daily manner. This paper presents a novel concept of radiation reduced Computed Tomography (CT) scans. The proposed concept includes two main methods: minification to enhance the energy concertation per pixel and subpixel resolution enhancement, using shifted images, to preserve resolution. The proposed process uses several pinhole masks as the base of the imaging modality. The proposed concept was validated numerically and experimentally and has demonstrated the capability of reducing the radiation efficiency by factor 4, being highly significant to the world of radiology and CT scans. This dose reduction allows a safer imaging process for the patient and the medical staff. This method simplifies the system and improves the obtained image quality. The proposed method can contribute additively to standard existing dose reduction or super-resolution techniques to achieve even better performance.

Reduction in Irradiation Dose in Aperture Coded Enhanced Computed Tomography Imager Using Super-Resolution Techniques