Parallel list-mode reconstruction and calculation of the system matrix for the high-resolution clearPET™ neuro

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2783-2786

  Musmann, Patrick ^b   Pietrzyk, Uwe ^a,c   Schramm, Nils ^b   Weber, Simone ^b  

^a IEEE

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

ClearPET; Distributed computing; GATE; Image reconstruction; LAM MPI; List mode; Maximum likelihood; PET; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RAY TRACING;

LIST-MODES; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACES; NEURO SCANNERS; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 38549132894     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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