Fiber Orientation Estimation from X-ray Dark Field Images of Fiber Reinforced Polymers using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution: Data

The data was simulated in GATEv8.0. The macro's and other files for the simulation can be found in the folders: Sim_50_40, Sim80_60 and Sim90_70. Here, the different files to perform the simulation are given, as well as the output data, found in the folders Flats and Projs (flatfields and projections) in the form of a csv-file. The csv-file contains 5000 rows (one for each image), and each row contains a flattened 450x450 image.

The files for visualization of the fiber directions are given in the folder MRtrix. This folder contains the reconstructed scatter magnitudes and their respective directions in a mat-file. On this set of directions the constrained spherical deconvolution is applied using the sf_dirs.mif, sf_mask.mif, sf_response.mif and data.mif files. This returns the orientation density function in each voxel as output (odf_csd_14.mif). An alternative approach is performing a Funk-Radon transform on the coefficients of the scatter function (data_coeffs_10.mif) to obtain odf_frt_10.mif.

Using a peak finding algorithm the fiber orientations are extracted from these odf-files and written to peaks_x.mif files, with or without a threshold (10% of largest amplitude).