An LOR-based fully-3D PET Image reconstruction using a blob-basis function

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4415-4418

  Hu, Z ^a   Wang, W ^a   Gualtieri, E E ^a   Hsieh, Y L ^a   Karp, J S ^b   Matej, S ^b   Parma, M J ^a   Tung, C H ^a   Walsh, E S ^a   Werner, M ^b   Gagnon, D ^a  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FOOD ADDITIVES; FOOD PRESERVATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; RESTORATION; TABLE LOOKUP; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ADDITIVE CORRECTIONS; BASIS FUNCTIONS; CLINICAL PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATION TIME; CRYSTAL RINGS; DUAL PROCESSORS; IMAGE ELEMENTS; IMAGE NOISE; LINE-OF-RESPONSE; LOOK-UP TABLE; MEMORY ACCESSES; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; ON-THE-FLY; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHILIPS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PROJECTION METHODS; SINOGRAM; SINOGRAM DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR); SYSTEM MATRICES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 48149105660     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437091     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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