Exact and approximate rebinning algorithms for 3-d pet data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-158

  Defrise, Michel ^a,b,c   Kinahan, P E ^a,b,c   Townsend, D W ^a,b,c   Michel, C ^a,b,c   Sibomana, M ^a,b,c   Newport, D F ^a,b,c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Medical imaging; Positron emission tomography; X ray transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

APPROXIMATE REBINNING ALGORITHMS; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION METHOD; FOURIER REBINNING ALGORITHM (FORE); SINOGRAMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031106959     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.563660     Document Type: Article

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