Fully 3D list-mode time-of-flight PET image reconstruction on GPUs using CUDA

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6775-6786

  Cui, Jing Yu ^a   Pratx, Guillem ^b   Prevrhal, Sven ^c   Levin, Craig S ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

acceleration; CUDA; GPU; high performance computing; line projections; list mode; OSEM; PET image reconstruction; time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NEGATIVE IONS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCESSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCANNING; TEXTURES;

CUDA; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LINE PROJECTIONS; LIST MODES; OSEM; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 82755163789     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3661998     Document Type: Article

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