Continuous bed motion acquisition for an LSO PET/CT scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2383-2387

  Townsend, David W ^a   Reed, Johnny ^c   Newport, Danny F ^b   Carney, Jonathan P J ^a   Tolbert, Selene ^c   Newby, Dan ^c   Yap, Jeffrey T ^a   Long, Misty J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b CTI Concorde MicroSystems ^*  (United States)

^c CPS Innovations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTINUOUS BED MOTION ACQUISITION; IMAGING FIELDS; PET/CT SCANNERS; RESOLUTION ARTIFACTS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844451163     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. M. Dahlbom, D-C. Yu, S.R. Cherry, A. Chatziioannou, E.J. Hoffman. Methods for improving image quality in whole body PET scanning. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 39(4):1079-1083, 1992.
2. M. Dahlbom, P.D. Cutler, W.M. Digby, W.K. Luk, J. Reed. Characterization of sampling schemes for whole body PET imaging. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 41(4):1571-1576, 1994.
3. M.A. Flower, K. Erlandsson, P. Collins, A.J. Reader, J.R. Symonds-Taylor, L.L. White, R.J. Ott. Spiral whole-body PET - implementation and initial results. J. Nucl. Med. 40(5): 279P, 1999.
4. S.F. Schubert, S. Pajevic, and R.E. Carson. Whole body PET using overlapped 3D acquisition and weighted image summation. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Record 2:1011-1015, 1996.
5. M. Dahlbom, A. Chatziioannou, C.K. Hoh. Resolution characterization of continuous axial sampling in whole body PET. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Record 2:1011-1015, 1995.
6. A. Chatziioannou and M. Dahlbom Study of the effects of whole body PET spatial sampling schemes on data SNR. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Record 2:1295-1299, 1997.
7. M. Dahlbom, J. Reed, J. Young. Implementation of true continuous 2D/3D whole body PET scanning. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Record; 1713-1717, 2000.
8. K. Kitamura, K. Tanaka, T. Sato. Implementation of continuous 3D whole-body PET scanning using on-the-fly Fourier rebinning. Proceedings of 3D-2001 Workshop on 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine; 137-140, 2001.
9. D. Brasse, D. Newport, J.P. Carney, J.T. Yap, C. Reynolds, J. Reed, J. Bao, P. Luk, C. Michel and D.W. Townsend. Continuous bed motion acquisition on a whole body combined PET/CT system. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Record; M6-42, 2003.
10. Y. Bercier, M. Casey, J. Young, T. Wheelock, T. Gremillion. ISO PET/CT Pico Performance improvements with ultra Hi-Rez option. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference Record; M10-284, 2004.
11. PE. Kinahan, DW. Townsend, T. Beyer, D. Sashin. Attenuation correction for a combined PET/CT scanner. Med. Phys. 25: 2046-2053, 1998.