Motion compensation in histogram-mode and list-mode EM reconstructions: Beyond the event-driven approach

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 II, 2004, Pages 2588-2596

  Rahmim, Arman ^a   Bloomfield, Peter ^b   Houle, Sylvain ^b   Lenox, Mark ^c   Michel, Christian ^c   Buckley, Kenneth R ^a,d   Ruth, Thomas J ^a,d   Sossi, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c CPS Innovations   (United States)

^d TRIUMF   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; Histogram mode; List mode; Motion compensation; Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM); HISTOGRAM MODES; LIST MODES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

EID: 8344282876     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.835763     Document Type: Article

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