Exact and approximate Fourier rebinning algorithms for the solution of the data truncation problem in 3-D PET

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1001-1009

  Ben Bouallègue, Fayçal ^b   Crouzet, Jean François ^b   Comtat, Claude ^a,c   Fourcade, Marjolaine ^b   Mohammadi, Bijan ^b   Mariano Goulart, Denis ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Fourier rebinning; Image reconstruction; Medical imaging; Positron emission tomography (PET); Reprojection

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FOURIER REBINNING; FOURIER SPACES; REPROJECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

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

EID: 34547373958     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.897362     Document Type: Article

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