Fast fully 3-D image reconstruction in PET using planograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 413-425

  Brasse, D ^a,b   Kinahan, P E ^a   Clackdoyle, R ^c   Defrise, M ^d   Comtat, C ^e   Townsend, D W ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e DIF   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DETECTORS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

PLANOGRAMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL BACKPROJECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 1942455212     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.824231     Document Type: Article

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