SheppLogan

An ImageJ plugin for the creation of the Shepp-Logan phantom.

Philippe Thévenaz, Biomedical Imaging Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Figure 1. A (256x256) version of the original Shepp-Logan phantom. Here, for display purposes, intensity 0.95 has been mapped to 0 (black) and intensity 1.05 has been mapped to 255 (white). The plugin itself generates intensities between 0.0 and 2.0.

General Description

The purpose of this plugin is to generate sampled versions of the Shepp-Logan phantom. It is possible to specify the location of the origin (so that the figure may be made symmetric with respect to the center of a pixel or with respect to the boundary between pixels). Unfortunately, what is apparently a typo has crept into the original paper. There, Table I pp. 32 mentions that Ellipse g should have intensity 0.01, while Figure 1 pp. 34 clearly suggests that the intensity of Ellipse g should be instead 0.02, which is apparent both from the caption of Figure 1 and from the figure itself. The SheppLogan plugin can be configured to generate both versions.

I. Download

This distribution is dated April 29, 2009. It includes the complete set of source files, along with the precompiled classes.

• jar file [6,810 bytes]
• source file [10,774 bytes] (optional, included in the jar file)

II. Related Work

This set of Java classes is based on the following paper: L.A. Shepp, B.F. Logan, "The Fourier Reconstruction of a Head Section," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 21-43, June 1974.

SheppLogan has been written as a plugin for ImageJ. Please read the ImageJ documentation to learn how to install plugins.

III. User Manual

Figure 2. Dialog.

Once the plugin is fired, the dialog shown in Figure 2 appears. The plugin can be run from a macro and is recordable. The Shepp-Logan phantom is parameterized as follows:

• Linear Dimension (pixel). This gives the size of the Shepp-Logan phantom. Its shape is always a square; the given number determines the length of one side of this square, in pixel units. When the dimension is changed, a new origin is automatically computed to maintain the phantom in the center.
• Horizontal Origin (pixel). This gives the horizontal location of the center of the phantom. Low numbers shift the phantom to the left, and high numbers to the right. The meaning of 0.0 is the center of the leftmost image column; consequently, the exact geometric center of the image is 0.5 * (dimension - 1.0).
• Vertical Origin (pixel). This gives the vertical location of the center of the phantom. Low numbers shift the phantom upwards, and high numbers downwards. The meaning of 0.0 is the center of the topmost image row; consequently, the exact geometric center of the image is 0.5 * (dimension - 1.0).
• Do Correct for Typo. This switch determines the intensity of Ellipse g in the original paper from Shepp and Logan. When not ticked, this intensity is 0.01, as provided in Table 1 pp. 32 of this paper. When ticked, this intensity is 0.02, as provided in Figure 1 pp. 34 of the same paper.

IV. Conditions of Use

You'll be free to use this software for research purposes, but you must not transmit and distribute it without our consent. EPFL makes no warranties of any kind on this software and shall in no event be liable for damages of any kind in connection with the use and exploitation of this technology.