Analytical calculation of volumes-of-intersection for iterative, fully 3-D PET reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1363-1369

  Scheins, Jürgen J ^b   Boschen, Fritz ^a,c   Herzog, Hans ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; Memory resident system matrix; Positron emission tomography (PET); Symmetries; Volumes of intersection (VOI)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RECORDING; ITERATIVE METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MEMORY RESIDENT SYSTEM MATRIX; SINOGRAMS; SYSTEM PROBABILITY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33947277900     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.880679     Document Type: Article

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