Fourier-based reconstruction for fully 3-D PET: Optimization of interpolation parameters

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 845-854

  Matej, Samuel ^a,b   Kazantsev, Ivan G ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct Fourier method (DFM); Fully three dimensional (3 D) image reconstruction; Gridding interpolation; Positron emission tomography (PET); Reprojection; Spectrum density weighting

Indexed keywords

DIRECT FOURIER METHOD (DFM); FULLY THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; GRIDDING INTERPOLATION; REPROJECTION; SPECTRUM DENSITY WEIGHTING;

FOURIER OPTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33746191846     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.873219     Document Type: Article

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