Gap compensation during PET image reconstruction by constrained, total variation minimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 589-602

  Ahn, Seonmin ^a   Kim, Soo Mee ^a   Son, Jungah ^b   Lee, Dong Soo ^a   Sung Lee, Jae ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

compressed sensing; gap compensation; image reconstruction; positron emission tomography (PET); TV minimization

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED SENSING; IMAGE DENOISING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; SCANNING;

MINIMIZATION METHODS; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POLYGONAL STRUCTURES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; TOTAL VARIATION MINIMIZATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84863014073     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3673775     Document Type: Article

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