Comparison of list-mode and DIRECT approaches for time-of-flight PET reconstruction

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2252-2258

  Daube Witherspoon, Margaret E ^a   Matej, Samuel ^a   Werner, Matthew E ^a   Surti, Suleman ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

PET reconstruction; Time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGULAR SAMPLING; DIRECT APPROACH; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LIST MODE DATA; LISTMODE; MEASURED DATA; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; PATIENT DATA; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; SPEED-UPS; SYSTEM MODELS; TEMPORAL DOMAIN; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79960290478     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874184     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. J.S. Karp, S. Surti, M. E. Daube-Witherspoon, and G. Muehllehner, "Benefit of time-of-flight in PET: Experimental and clinical results," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 49, pp. 462-470, 2008.
2. D. J. Kadrmas, M. E. Casey, M. Conti, B. W. Jakoby, C. Lois, and D. W. Townsend, "Impact of time-of-flight on PET tumor detection," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 50, pp. 1315-1323, 2009.
3. C. Lois, B. W. Jakoby, M. J. Long, K. F. Hubner, D. W. Barker, M. E. Casey, et al., "An assessment of the impact of incorporating time-of-flight information into clinical PET/CT imaging," J. Nucl. Med., vol. 51, pp. 237-245, 2010.
4. D. L. Snyder, L. J. Thomas, Jr., and M. M. Ter-Pogossian, "A mathematical model for positron-emission tomography systems having time-of-flight measurements," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. NS-28, pp. 3575-3583, 1981.
5. E. A. Philippe, N. A. Mullani, W.-H. Wong, and R. Hartz, "Real-time image reconstruction for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOFPET)," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. NS-29, pp. 524-528, 1982.
6. D. L. Snyder, "Some noise comparisons of data-collection arrays for emission tomography-systems having time-of-flight measurements," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. NS-29, pp. 1029-1033, 1982.
7. C. C. Watson, "An evaluation of image noise variance for time-of-flight PET," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 54, pp. 1636-1647, 2007.
8. M. Defrise, M. E. Casey, C. Michel, and M. Conti, "Fourier rebinning of time-of-flight PET data," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 50, pp. 2749-2763, 2005.
9. M. Defrise, V. Panin, C. Michel, and M. E. Casey, "Discrete axial rebinning for time-of-flight PET," in: Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 31 October - 4 November 2006, San Diego, CA, M10-2.
10. S. Cho, S. Ahn, Q. Li, and R. M. Leahy, "Analytical properties of timeof- flight PET data," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 53, pp. 2809-2821, 2008.
11. S. Cho, S. Ahn, Q. Li, and R. M. Leahy, "Exact and approximate Fourier rebinning of PET data from time-of-flight to non time-of-flight," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 54, pp. 467-484, 2009.
12. H. M. Hudson and R. S. Larkin, "Accelerated image reconstruction using ordered subsets of projection data," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 13, pp. 601-609, 1994.
13. L. M. Popescu, S. Matej, and R. M. Lewitt, "Iterative image reconstruction using geometrically ordered subsets with list-mode data," in Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 20-22 October 2004, Rome, Italy, M09-211.
14. C. J. Groiselle and S. J. Glick, "3D PET list-mode iterative reconstruction using time-of-flight information," in Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 20-22 October 2004, Rome, Italy, M02-305.
15. W. Wang, Z. Hu, E. E. Gualtieri, M. J. Parma, E. S. Walsh, D. Sebok, et al., "Systematic and distributed time-of-flight list mode PET reconstruction," in Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 29 October - 4 November 2006, San Diego, CA, M04-2.
16. S. Matej, S. Surti, S. Jayanthi, M. E. Daube-Witherspoon, R. M. Lewitt, and J. S. Karp, "Efficient 3-D TOF PET reconstruction using viewgrouped histo-images: DIRECT-Direct image reconstruction for TOF," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 28, pp. 739-751, 2009.
17. D. G. Politte, G. R. Hoffman, D. E. Beecher, D. C. Ficke, T. J. Holmes, and M. M. Ter-Pogossian, "Image-reconstruction of data from Super PETT I: A first-generation time-of-flight positron-emission tomograph (reconstruction from reduced-angle data)," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 33, pp. 428-454, 1986.
18. S. Vandenberghe, M. E. Daube-Witherspoon, R. M. Lewitt, and J. S. Karp, "Fast reconstruction of 3D time-of-flight PET data by axial rebinning and transverse mashing," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 51, pp. 1603-1621, 2006.
19. J. S. Karp, A. Kuhn, A. E. Perkins, S. Surti, M. E. Werner, M. E. Daube-Witherspoon, et al., "Characterization of a time-of-flight PET scanner based on lanthanum bromide," in Conference Record of the 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 23 - 29 October 2005, San Juan, Puerto Rico, M04-8.
20. C. C. Watson, "Extension of single scatter simulation to scatter correction of time-of-flight PET," in Conference Record of the 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 24-29 October 2005, Puerto Rico, pp. 2492-2496.
21. M. E. Werner, S. Surti, and J. S. Karp, "Implementation and evaluation of a 3D PET single scatter simulation with TOF modeling," in: Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 31 October - 4 November 2006, San Diego, CA, M05-3.
22. S. Matej and J. A. Browne, "Performance of a fast maximum likelihood algorithm for fully 3-D PET reconstruction," in: 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, P. Grangeat and J.-L. Amans, eds., Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 297-316, 1996.
23. R. M. Lewitt, "Multidimensional digital image representations using generalized Kaiser-Bessel window functions," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol. 7, pp. 1834-1846, 1990.
24. 3-based PET scanner," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 55, pp. 45-64, 2010.
25. G. El Fakhri, S. Surti, C. Trott, J. Scheuermann, J. S. Karp, "Quantitation of improvement in lesion detectability with whole-body oncologic TOFPET,' J. Nucl. Med. (accepted for publication).
26. S. Surti, J. Scheuermann, G. El Fakhri, F. Benard, M. E. Daube-Witherspoon, C. Divgi, et al., "Impact of TOF on whole-body oncologic studies: a human observer detection and localization study, submitted to J. Nucl. Med..