Optimal relaxation parameters of DRAMA (dynamic RAMLA) aiming at one-pass image reconstruction for 3D-PET

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2917-2939

  Tanaka, Eiichi ^a   Kudo, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK-ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DESIGN PARAMETERS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FAST CONVERGENCE; NOISE PROPAGATION; ONE-PASS; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMAL RELAXATION PARAMETER; PET SCANNER; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RELAXATION PARAMETER; ROW-ACTION MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION STUDIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) RECONSTRUCTION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPAIR; SET THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77951771096     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/10/009     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Browne J and De Pierro A 1996 A row-action alternative to the EM algorithm for maximizing likelihoods in emission tomography IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 15 687-99
2. Fukano A, Nakayama T and Kudo H 2004 Performance evaluation of relaxed block-iterative algorithms for 3D PET reconstruction IEEE Medical Imaging Conf. Record 2004 (M4-1) pp 2830-4
3. Neto E S H and De Piero A R 2005 Convergence results for scaled gradient algorithms in positron emission tomography Inverse Problems 21 1905-14
4. Hudson H M and Larkin R S 1994 Accelerated image reconstruction using ordered subsets of projection data IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 13 601-9
5. Meikle S R, Hutton B F, Bailey D L, Hooper P K and Fulham M J 1994 Accelerated EM reconstruction in total-body PET: potential for improving tumour detectability Phys. Med. Biol. 39 1689-704
6. Nakayama T and Kudo H 2005 Derivation and implementation of ordered-subsets algorithms for list-mode PET data IEEE Medical Imaging Conf. Record 2005 (M05-7) pp 1950-4
7. Natterer F 1986 The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography (New York: Wiley)
8. Shepp L A and Vardi Y 1982 Maximum likelihood reconstruction for emission tomography IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 1 113-22
9. Snyder D L and Miller M I 1985 The use of sieves to stabilized images produced with the EM algorithm for emission tomography IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 32 3864-72
10. Tanaka E and Amo Y 1998 A Fourier rebinning algorithm incorporating spectral transfer efficiency for 3D PET Phys. Med. Biol. 43 739-46
11. Tanaka E and Iinuma T 1976 Correction functions and statistical noise in transverse section picture reconstruction Comput. Biol. Med. 6 295-306
12. Tanaka E and Kudo H 2003 Subset-dependent relaxation in block-iterative algorithms for image reconstruction in emission tomography Phys. Med. Biol. 48 1405-22
13. Tanaka E, Ote K, Isobe T, Watanabe M and Yamashita T 2007 A fast statistical image reconstruction algorithm for TOF-PET using DRAMA (dynamic RAMLA) strategy IEEE Medical Imaging Conf. Record 2007 (M19-215) pp 3850-4
14. Yamada Y, Kitamura K, Hashizume N, Yamakawa Y and Kumazawa Y 2007 Reconstruction of 4-layer DOI detector equipped C-shaped PEM via list-mode iterative algorithm IEEE Medical Imaging Conf. Record 2007 (M26-212) pp 4397-400