X-ray backscatter with compressed sensing algorithm

2025-07-18

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I built an X-ray backscatter imaging system that uses compressed sensing to reconstruct full images from random samples.

Original inspiration for this project:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180630083729/http://www.pyrunner.com/weblog/2016/05/26/compressed-sensing-python/

Github:

https://github.com/benkrasnow/Xray_backscatter_compressed_sensing/

Original Applied Science X-ray backscatter video:

/youtube/video/H7ldYhzKAp4

Github for Source Ray X-ray tube interface documentation:

https://github.com/andrewgomella/sri

Steve Brunton's introduction to compressed sensing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbU1pahbbkc

Nathan Kutz's video on compressed sensing with live coding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5mMEmZHfs

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