Iterative image reconstruction using inverse fourier rebinning for fully 3-D PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 745-756

  Cho, Sanghee ^a   Li, Quanzheng ^a   Ahn, Sangtae ^a   Bai, Bing ^a   Leahy, Richard M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc correction; Fourier rebinning; Iterative reconstruction; Maximum likelihood; Three dimensional (3 D) positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARC CORRECTION; FOURIER REBINNING; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

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

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

EID: 33847784515     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.887378     Document Type: Article

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