Iterative reconstruction of Fourier-rebinned PET data using sinogram blurring function estimated from point source scans

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5530-5540

  Tohme, Michel S ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

axial blurring kernel; detector response; iterative image reconstruction; positron emission tomography; sinogram blurring kernel; system modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; SCANNING;

AXIAL BLURRING; BLURRING KERNELS; DETECTOR RESPONSE; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SYSTEM MODELING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77957714930     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3490711     Document Type: Article

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