Fast, accurate and shift-varying line projections for iterative reconstruction using the GPU

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 435-445

  Pratx, Guillem ^a   Chinn, Garry ^a   Olcott, Peter D ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphics processing units; Iterative image reconstruction; List mode; Ordered subset expectation maximization; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; RESTORATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LINES OF RESPONSE; LIST-MODE; NEW APPROACHES; ORDERED-SUBSET EXPECTATION- MAXIMIZATION; ORDERED-SUBSETS; PHOTON EMISSIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PROJECTION DATUM; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATIONS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PETS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 61449116964     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2006518     Document Type: Article

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