ACCELERATED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS

The present technology relates to an imaging system. The imaging system can comprise at least one processor configured to apply a projection precomputation algorithm and an x-ray tomography image reconstruction system. The projection precomputation algorithm can be configured to: generate a projection operator matrix that can be used to calculate a plurality of voxels from a plurality of projection measurements before the plurality of projection measurements is acquired and store the projection operator matrix in memory. The projection operator matrix can be at least one of: a compressed matrix, a multi-iteration projection operator matrix, and a combination thereof. The x-ray tomography image reconstruction system can be configured to apply the projection operator matrix to generate a reconstructed three-dimensional image of at least an internal portion of a selected object under a surface of the selected object when the plurality of projection measurements is acquired.