Improved resolution for PET volume imaging through three-dimensional iterative reconstruction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1623-1631

  Liow, Jeih San ^a   Strother, Stephen C ^b   Rehm, Kelly ^b   Rottenberg, David A ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; PET; Resolution improvement; Three dimensional volume imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 0030838797     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Bailey DL, Jones T, Spinks TJ, Gilardi MC, Townsend DW. Noise equivalent count measurements in a neuro-PET scanner with retractable septa. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1991;10:256-260.
2. Spinks TJ, Jones T, Bailey DL, et al. Physical performance of a positron tomograph for brain imaging with retractable septa. Phys Med Biol 1992;37:1637-1655.
3. Cherry SR, Magnus D, Hoffman EJ. Three-dimensional PET using a conventional multislice tomograph without septa. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1991;15:655-668.
4. Townsend DW, Spinks TJ, Jones T, et al. Three-dimensional reconstruction of PET data from a multi-ring camera. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1989;36:1056-1065.
5. Kinihan PE, Rogers JG, Harrop R, Johnson RR. Three-dimensional image reconstruction in object space. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci 1988;35:635-638.
6. Defrise M, Townsend DW, Clack R. Favor. A fast reconstruction algorithm for volume imaging in PET. Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 1991;3:1919-1923.
7. Daube-Witherspoon ME, Muchllehner G. Treatment of axial data in three-dimensional PET. J Nucl Med 1987;28:1717-1724.
8. Lewitt RM, Muehllehner G, Karp JS. Three-dimensional image reconstruction for PET by multi-slice rebinning and axial filtering. Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 1991;3:2054-2061.
9. Defrise M, Sibomana M, Michel C. Three-dimensional PET reconstruction with the ECAT EXACT HR using Fourier rebinning. Conference Record of the 1995 IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference: 1995;3:1316-1320.
10. Kinihan PE, Karp JS. Determining when three-dimensional reconstruction methods are required in volume PET imaging. Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 1992;2:904-906.
11. Medoff BP, Brody WR, Nassi, M, Macovski A. Iterative convolution backprojection algorithms for image reconstruction from limited data. J Opt Soc Am 1983;73:1443-1500.
12. Walters TE, Simon W, Chester DA, Correia JA. Attenuation correction in gamma emission computed tomography. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1981;5:9-94.
13. Xu XL, Liow JS, Strother SC. Iterative algebraic reconstruction algorithms for emission computed tomography: a unified framework and its application to positron emission tomography. Med Physics 1993;20:1675-1684.
14. Shepp LA, Vardi Y, Maximum likelihood reconstruction for emission tomography. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1982;1:113-122.
15. Lange K, Carson RE. EM reconstruction algorithms for emission and transmission tomography. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1984;8:306-316.
16. Liow JS, Strother SC. Noise and signal decoupling in maximum likelihood reconstructions and Metz filter for PET brain images. Phys Med Biol 1994;39:735-750.
17. Llacer J, Andreae S, Veklerov E. Towards a practical implementation of the MLE algorithm for positron emission tomography. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci 1986;33:468-477.
18. Lalush DS, Tsui BMW. A fast and stable maximum a posterior conjugate gradient reconstruction algorithm. Med Physics 1995;22:1273-1284.
19. Sauer K, Bouman C. A local update strategy for iterative reconstruction from projections. IEEE Trans Signal Proc 1993;41:534-548.
20. Fessler JA. Penalized weighted least-squares image reconstruction for positron emission tomography. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1994;13:290-300.
21. Mumcuoglu E, Leahy R, Zhou Z, Cherry SR. A phantom study of the quantitative behavior of Bayesian PET reconstruction methods. Conference Record of the 1995 IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium and Medical imaging Conference: 1995;3:1703-1707.
22. Lalush DS, Tsui BMW. Improving the convergence of iterative filtered backprojection algorithms. Med Physics 1993;21:1283-1286.
23. Clinthorne NH, Pan T-S, Chiao P-C, Rogers WL, Stamos JA. Preconditioning methods for improved convergence rates in iterative reconstructions. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1993;12:78-83.
24. Snyder DL, Miller MI, Thomas LJ Jr, Politte DG. Noise and edge artifacts in maximum-likelihood reconstructions for emission tomography. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1987;6:228-238.
25. Liow JS, Strother SC, Rottenberg DA. Improved resolution via iterative reconstruction for PET volume imaging. Conference Record of the 1994 IEEE Nuclear Sciences Simposium and Medical Imaging Conference 1994;3:1315-1319.
26. 2O production and injection system for PET imaging. Nucl Med Biol 1995;22:241-249.
27. Woods RP, Mazziotta JC, Cherry SR. MRI-PET registration with automated algorithm. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1992;17:536-546.
28. Worsley KJ, Evans AC, Marrett S, Neelin P. A three-dimensional statistical analysis for CBF activation studies in human brain. J Cereb Bood Flow Metab 1992;12:900-918.
29. Liow JS, Strother SC. The convergence of object-dependent resolution in maximum likelihood based tomographic image reconstruction. Phys Med Biol 1993;38:55-70.
30. Schaper KA, Rehm K, Summers D, et al. Symbolic representation of functional data: the corner-cube environment. Neuroimage 1996;3:5166.
31. Snedecor GW, Cochran WG. Statistical methods. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press; 1980.
32. Taylor SF, Minishima S, Koeppe, RA. Instability of localization of cerebral blood flow activation foci with parametric maps. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1993;13:1040-1041.
33. Worsley KJ, Evans AC, Marrett S, Neelin P. Author's reply. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1993;13:1041-1042.
34. Carson RE, Yan Y, Chodkowski B, Yap TK, Daube-Witherspoon ME. Precision and accuracy of regional radioactivity quantitation using the maximum likelihood EM reconstruction algorithm. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1994;13:526-537.
35. Hudson HM, Larkin RS. Accelerated image reconstruction using ordered subsets of projection data. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1994;13:601-609.