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In some special applications, limited by the geometric space and mechanical structure of the imaging system, projections can only be collected with a scanning range of less than 90\u00b0. We call this kind of serious limited-angle problem the ultra-limited-angle problem, which is difficult to effectively alleviate by traditional iterative reconstruction algorithms. With the development of deep learning, the generative adversarial network (GAN) performs well in image inpainting tasks and can add effective image information to restore missing parts of an image. In this study, given the characteristic of GAN to generate missing information, the sinogram-inpainting-GAN (SI-GAN) is proposed to restore missing sinogram data to suppress the singularity of the truncated sinogram for ultra-limited-angle reconstruction. We propose the U-Net generator and patch-design discriminator in SI-GAN to make the network suitable for standard medical CT images. Furthermore, we propose a joint projection domain and image domain loss function, in which the weighted image domain loss can be added by the back-projection operation. Then, by inputting a paired limited-angle\/180\u00b0 sinogram into the network for training, we can obtain the trained model, which has extracted the continuity feature of sinogram data. Finally, the classic CT reconstruction method is used to reconstruct the images after obtaining the estimated sinograms. The simulation studies and actual data experiments indicate that the proposed method performed well to reduce the serious artifacts caused by ultra-limited-angle scanning.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19183941","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,12]],"date-time":"2019-09-12T10:56:06Z","timestamp":1568285766000},"page":"3941","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":55,"title":["Promising Generative Adversarial Network Based Sinogram Inpainting Method for Ultra-Limited-Angle Computed Tomography Imaging"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5714-457X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ziheng","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ailong","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1087-5911","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Linyuan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenkun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ningning","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA Strategy Support Force Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3781","DOI":"10.1118\/1.2237543","article-title":"A comparative study of limited-angle cone-beam reconstruction methods for breast tomosynthesis","volume":"33","author":"Zhang","year":"2006","journal-title":"Med. 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