List-mode image reconstruction for real-time PET imaging

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 630-646

  Selivanov, Vitali V ^a,b   Lepage, Martin D ^a,b   Lecomte, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Advanced Molecular Imaging (AMI) Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Iterative algorithms; List mode; Positron emission tomography; Regularized pseudo inverse matrix; Tomographic reconstruction; Truncated singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; LIST MODE; REGULARIZED PSEUDO-INVERSE MATRIX; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRUNCATED SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33646377618     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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