arXiv Computer Vision By Song Ni, Haijun Yu, Haodong Li, Changsheng Fang, Shuyi Fan, Yixing Huang, Hengyong Yu

SONAR: A Structure-Consistent Neural Operator for Null-Space-Aware Sparse View CT Reconstruction

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