A system calibration and fast iterative reconstruction method for next-generation SPECT imagers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1990-1996

  Miller, Brian W ^a   Van Holen, Roel ^b   Barrett, Harrison H ^a   Furenlid, Lars R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Calibration; Graphics processing units (GPUs); High performance computing; Image reconstruction; Ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM); Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); System matrix

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHOD; DETECTOR RESPONSE; GAMMA CAMERAS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MEMORY STORAGE; ON THE FLIES; ORDERED-SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; POINT SOURCES; SMALL-ANIMAL; SYSTEM CALIBRATION; SYSTEM MATRICES; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DETECTORS; DIGITAL STORAGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTICLE BEAMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867880485     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2198243     Document Type: Article

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