Fully-3D PET image reconstruction using scanner-independent, adaptive projection data and highly rotation-symmetric voxel assemblies

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 879-892

  Scheins, J J ^a   Herzog, H ^a   Shah, N J ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Generic cylinder model; iterative reconstruction; positron emission tomography (PET); symmetries; system matrix

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CYLINDER MODEL; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; IMAGE SPACE; INTRINSIC SYMMETRIES; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LINES OF RESPONSE; MEMORY-RESIDENT; OSEM RECONSTRUCTION; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROJECTION DATA; SIEMENS; SIMULATED DATA; SINOGRAMS; SYMMETRIES; SYSTEM MATRICES; SYSTEM MATRIX; WEIGHTING SCHEME; WHOLE-BODY;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELECTRONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POSITRONS; ROTATION; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952156824     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2109732     Document Type: Article

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