Using spherical basis functions on a polar grid for iterative image reconstruction in small animal PET

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cabello, Jorge ^a   Oliver, Josep F ^a   Rafecas, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

blobs; iterative statistical reconstruction; Monte Carlo system response matrix; PET; polar voxels; Spherical basis functions

Indexed keywords

BLOBS; ITERATIVE STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO; PET; POLAR VOXELS; SPHERICAL BASIS;

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SPHERES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79955747348     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.876495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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