One-pass list-mode EM algorithm for high-resolution 3-D PET image reconstruction into large arrays

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 693-699

  Reader, Andrew J ^a   Ally, Stijn ^a   Bakatselos, Filippos ^a   Manavaki, Roido ^a   Walledge, Richard J ^a   Jeavons, Alan P ^b   Julyan, Peter J ^c   Zhao, Sha ^c   Hastings, David L ^c   Zweit, Jamal ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxford Positron Systems   (United Kingdom)

^c CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iterative image reconstruction; List mode; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HIGH DENSITY AVALANCHE CHAMBER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIST MODE; ONE PASS LIST MODE EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036624497     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039550     Document Type: Article

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