A fast fully 4-D incremental gradient reconstruction algorithm for list mode PET data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-67

  Li, Quanzheng ^a   Asma, Evren ^a,b   Ahn, Sangtae ^a   Leahy, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent algorithms; Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET); List mode data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRADIENT METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CONVERGENT ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTION; LIST MODE DATA;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846211803     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884208     Document Type: Article

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