Improved motion-compensated image reconstruction for PET using sensitivity correction per respiratory gate and an approximate tube-of-response backprojector

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4958-4970

  Dikaios, Nikolaos ^a   Fryer, Tim D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

backprojector; image reconstruction; motion correction; PET; sensitivity correction

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BACKPROJECTOR; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FREE-FORM DEFORMATION; LESION DETECTABILITY; MOTION CORRECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SENSITIVITY CORRECTIONS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 80052413807     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3611041     Document Type: Article

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